‘A good one?’
She smiled. ‘Good enough.’
I waited.
‘I thought before I took it I’d talk to you about it.’
‘The farm is yours, Molly. You don’t need to talk to me.’
‘That’s the thing. The minute I got the offer I knew we needed to talk. When I sell the farm that’s it. It’s all gone.’
‘I thought that was the point.’
‘So did I.’
‘Well, if you’re asking me my opinion, I’d say the only way to know is for the two of us to drive to the farm and take a look at it.’
She laughed. ‘That’s a long drive just for a look!’
I gave her a sly smile. ‘They’ve got motels between here and there if we get sleepy.’
She grinned prettily at the idea. ‘You can leave? Just like that?’
‘I can do any damn thing I feel like, Molly. I’m fear-less these days.’
‘I knew a guy like that once.’
‘Why’d you let him go?’
‘He got careful. That was part of it. Mostly he knew too much about me.’
‘Hard to forgive a man that, I expect.’
‘We need to talk,’ she said after a moment. ‘About a lot of things.’
I took her hand and held it for a moment to be sure she wanted me as much as I wanted her, and then I said, ‘What do you say we do that on the way home?’
