CHAPTER ELEVEN In the following months, the future Maddie had originally planned for herself finally began to take shape. She’d moved to her parents’ house only long enough to sell hers. After the sale was completed on the great big house in Flower Mound that she’d never wanted to begin with, she moved along to phase two of her plans - touring some plots of land Kathy had found. She settled on the fifth location they explored, and paid cash for twenty acres in the countryside southwest of Fort Worth, Texas, with the intention of making her non-profit animal shelter a reality. The land she chose already had two water wells and electrical lines running to it, so Maddie met with a builder. “I’m going to live on the land,” she told him, “but I also don’t want everyone driving past my hous

