A week after the wedding, Alex had spent the day riding and repairing fences with her dad. It had taken a while but he looked like he’d never been so ill they’d been worried he wouldn’t survive just a few short months earlier.
“What are your plans for this evening?” her dad asked as they rubbed down their horses and got ready to put them in their stalls for the night.
“I’m gonna go over and exercise with JV.”
“After a full day’s work you’ve got the energy to go exercise? Obviously I’m not working you hard enough.” He lifted one brow in her direction as he teased her.
“Not that kind of exercise, Dad. It’s sparring. Working on self-defense tactics and hand-to-hand combat.”
“Why do you need to learn all that? You planning on becoming an enforcer like she is and leaving me to run this pla
