Chapter 5 August 15th
DelilahThe rest of the week passed uneventfully as Leah and I tried to come up with ideas for the horses and children. I was still drawing a blank when my best friend, Melanie Baker, invited me over to her fiancé’s ranch to help them put up hay for the cattle.
Melanie and I were in the hayloft of the barn stacking the hay as my older brother, Damien, threw the bales onto an elevator to bring them to us from the trailer; while, Pete, the fiancé, brought in full wagons from the field.
The children and the horses, what was I going to do? I only had a couple more days before Leah had to put them up for sale, and then I could say goodbye to my dream of running the stable. My internal thoughts ran on repeat with no new solutions.
“Earth to Delilah!” Melanie called. A ha
