For Paige, life on the Good Fortune Ranch settled into an easy routine after the moose incident. Clay kept his word and didn’t tell anyone the specifics of why she’d been late, though once or twice she caught Cody casting an odd look at her. He even tried to get more details out of her when his girlfriend Jan showed up to take Paige shopping, but Paige laughed him off, dismissing it as too stupid to even talk about. In the background, Clay smiled at her. She took it and held it to heart.
Her days were spent either riding in carefully mapped portions of the ranch—no more random exploring for this girl—or at the house, sitting with Mrs. Putnam. There were days when she was lucid enough to want Paige’s company, and those were the ones Paige enjoyed the most. They played cards, or Scrabble, o
