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man.”
Autumn lifted one shoulder in a half-shrug.
    “Anyway,”
she said, sighing again, “he decided he wanted to try things out with her, and
I didn’t think there was any real reason to try and convince him to stay—not
for me, anyway. As soon as I found out that he was cheating on me, it was
like…” She shook her head. “I can’t say my heart broke, exactly, but any
feeling I really had for him just evaporated.”
    “That
makes sense,” I said. I was relieved to hear that she had had the sense to
sever ties with a man who’d mistreated her and enough command of her emotions
to keep from wanting to salvage something with a man who obviously didn’t
respect her.
    “It’s
a shame in a certain respect,” she said. “He’s never even seen his own
daughter. I don’t want him in my life anymore, but you’d think he’d at least put
a token effort into his own daughter, wouldn’t you?”
    I
smiled back at her sadly, hoping she knew just how sympathetic I felt.
    “Well,
if he doesn’t want to know his own daughter, then she’s better off without him,
right?” I shifted on the couch; my head was starting to feel heavy again—but
not in the clogged-up way. I yawned and shook my head to try and keep the
sleepiness from taking over.
    “The
medicine is starting to kick in,” Autumn observed. “I should leave.”
    “You’re
a good mom,” I told her, feeling sleepy and comfortable and content for the
first time all day. “You’re a good mom, and you’re a much better woman than
Titan could ever deserve—so it’s good you’re not with him anymore, anyway.” She
snickered. My eyelids were so heavy.
    “I’m
going to put this on the coffee table for you,” she said, and I felt her hand
on mind, felt the glass of Gatorade sliding free of my fingers. “Get some sleep
and feel better in the morning, okay?”
    “Okay,”
I agreed. “I’ll call in if I’m not better…but I hope I am…” The medicine
started to kick in more strongly and I wasn’t even sure if I said goodbye to
Autumn; all I knew was that I was warm, my head wasn’t full of snot, and I was
too sleepy to even think about staying awake. I hoped she’d understand.

 
    Chapter
Nine
    Autumn

 
    About
a week after I visited Cade’s house to check up on him and bring him soup,
everything was back to normal at the farm. I had somehow managed not to come
down with the bug—whatever it was—that Cade had had, and none of the members of
my family had gotten it either, which was a blessing.
    I
never told Tuck or even Dad about taking the soup to Cade; in the case of Dad,
I was sure he’d think it was inappropriate, and Tuck would have teased me for
the rest of my life about it. As far as I knew, Cade hadn’t mentioned it,
either.
    “Let’s
get some work done, baby girl,” I told Addie as I stepped out of the house with
her in my arms.
    It
wasn’t quite as hot as it had been the previous week, but it was still pretty
warm out—and, of course, Adelyn’s baby skin needed protecting from the sun even
if it wasn’t all that hot. I had set her playpen outside before I grabbed her,
and I pulled it over to a shady spot underneath a tree so that she could enjoy
the nice weather while I worked, and so I could keep an eye on her.
    Mom
was inside, working on the accounts, and the guys were out in the field. I had
to water the kitchen garden, do a little weeding, and clean the exterior
windows. Mom and Dad always said that just because it was a farm house, that
didn’t mean we could let it get to looking old or run-down. I’d probably have
to take a few days later on in the season to paint—if I could get Tuck and
maybe Cade to help me, it would be easier.
    I
looked out at the fields and saw the shapes of the guys moving along the rows.
It was still early in the growing season, but they were already putting down
pesticides and fertilizer to give the soybeans and corn the best possible
chance.
    For
my own part, I had fertilized the

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