Said No One Ever by Stephanie Eding

Author:Stephanie Eding
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2023-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Mom: Do you know how to install crown molding? We think the dining room could use that too.

Dr. Tori-Hero Veterinarian: How’s Sheriff today? How are YOU?

Averie: Saw a girl in the office that reminded me of you. Carpal tunnel at twenty-six years old because of a computer job! Maybe it’s a good thing you’re switching careers.

Career switch. That was an interesting way to phrase it.

Ellie finished putting the eggs in the barn refrigerator and popped out the back door to snap a picture of the beautiful Montana horizon. She sent the image to both her mother and sister. The scenery should be enough to distract them for a hot minute.

Her response to Tori was much friendlier and in depth: You wouldn’t even know he got hurt. He’s been patrolling the pasture all morning like always. And I’m calm now, so long as that doesn’t happen ever again. ;) Hope bath time went smoothly! Thanks again for coming to my rescue last night.

It was nice to have an ally, especially one who understood her current situation on the farm and didn’t care who she’d recently broken up with. It took the sting out of losing Chloe in the breakup a little bit. Friendship shouldn’t be based on who you’re dating, but that was the reality of it sometimes.

Ellie shoved her phone back into her pocket and kicked at the stones on her way across the lot, slowing when Hilda bounded from the barn and made walking much more difficult. Chickens cried as they ran to get out of the way, their wings flapping wildly. Ellie was the real target of the dog’s enthusiasm.

“Easy, girl,” Ellie called, and braced herself for impact.

Hilda slowed, but still leapt up, her nubby tail wagging a mile a minute. Ellie patted the dog’s soft head and gently pushed her down.

“Ellie!” Warren called from the distance.

His booming voice almost made her fall over her own feet. She hadn’t even seen him around the farm since they’d gotten back from the nursing home. Even now, he didn’t approach. Just stood there at a distance and waited.

“What’s up?” she called back.

“You want to meet me at the house in about an hour to eat some cheese?” he asked.

Wow. She never would have imagined that question to come out of his mouth. Or, well, anyone’s. “Eat cheese?”

“Gram called again, all worried about this smoked gouda going bad. Said we need to eat it.” It was, hands down, the strangest conversation ever shouted across a farmyard. “Plus, I thought we could look for that envelope.”

Ah, the TOP SECRET envelope. Number six on the to-do list. If she found that and ate the cheese, she’d kill two weird birds with one weird stone.

Then again, doing both of those things with Warren would be…interesting.

“Sounds like a blast,” she called out.

He gave a thumbs-up and whistled for Hilda to return to his side as he went back to work.

It took Ellie a second to get her bearings. Rather than thinking her an intruder ready

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