Chapter 18
THREE WEEKS INTO BRENDAN’S Farm Adventure
Star Prairie, WI
Brendan wasn’t ever going to love farming the way Katie did. But three weeks into this strange sojourn, he had to admit there was a contentment to be found out here with the fields and the cows. He felt like he was beginning to understand what it meant to Katie to be here and work towards a goal that wasn’t skating but was just as important.
As wary and angry as Katie had been when he’d first shown up — and as angry as he had been about her mistrust in return — things were better now. Not easy, not perfect, but good and getting better. She had let him into her world. Brendan wasn’t afraid she’d run away again, and not just because she had nowhere else to go. Whatever he was still doing on the farm, she wasn’t testing
