Fourteen
This time when I woke up, I wasn’t surprised to find my room bathed in darkness. Again, the barest hint of morning glow peeked in through my window, but otherwise the world was still asleep. No birds chirping or roosters crowing. No cattle trampling the earth to get to breakfast. No horses whinnying to get theirs. No scream-barking coyote to terrify the life out of me.
No sounds of Genevieve or Ty moving around the house.
The entire world was quiet.
I, however, was wide awake.
Normally not anything close to a morning person, it seemed that my mind and body were eager to get up and running this morning. Maybe it was the knowledge that filming would wrap soon and I would be leaving this beautiful place forever.
I laid still for as long as I could bear, absorbing the way the te
