Harper met Justin in the hall on her way downstairs.
“Hey, I’ll go shower the horse stink off and then we can have a nice birthday breakfast,” Justin said, beaming at her.
“Yeah, meet you downstairs,” she replied, wanting to return the hug Justin was obviously eager to give but wouldn’t in his stable clothes.
Scarlett was nowhere to be seen, but because Harper could hear excited barking from the front yard, she was pretty sure that’s where she’d find Lettie and her hounds if she went to look.
In some ways, Scarlett had it easiest. She didn’t remember much at all of their old life. She’d said once, that sometimes when she sat at the old kitchen table they still had in the dining room, she had flashes of sitting by it in a high chair in a different house, but that was it.
After that fir
