Chapter 51Steph
Saying goodbye to Maike and her family affected Steph more than she cared to think about. She hated leaving the ranch, too. Why was it that vacations stretched endlessly before you in the beginning, yet on the last day, they seemed to have gone by in a blur?
Steph had gone to give one last treat to Midnight and Delilah earlier, but, unwilling to tear herself away afterwards, had sat on the bench outside the barn for a few minutes. To think about the horses, and also about the people who had just left for the airport and who, despite the promises they’d all made, she would never see again.
But it was Annika her thoughts kept straying to. Annika and that cute smile of hers when she thought nobody was looking. Annika, her face open and trusting one minute yet completely clo
