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Chapter 1

Save a horse, ride a… bike Nobody wants a fat ass

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Codie

“Yes, Granddad,” I said through shivering lips “I’ any trouble pulling the trailer Yes No Yes”

I sighed in frustration when Granddad continued askingin the rain didn’t much matter to him

“Yes, I’ll look for Mr Valentine,” I soothed “I don’t kno to back up the trailer, so I’ to ask him to do it Do you think he will?”

“Yes,” Granddad immediately replied “I think he will Just make sure to say please He’s very formal”

Did I note a hint of satisfaction in his voice?

Whatever

“Listen,” I said, spotting the sign for the Longview Livestock in front of me “I’m almost there, and I’m about to turn I love you”

“Love you, too, Codie,” Granddad said in his shaky, aging voice “Have fun”

I s from Granddad’s mouth

He didn’t say ‘I love you’ very often, so when he did, it made the words all the more special to hear

Dropping the phone into the seat beside me, I looked in e diesel dually,to a stop al in

“Where do I go?” I asked the empty cab

My eyes took everything in at once, and my belly started to flutter

“Shit,” I growled, turning right and keeping it slow as I accelerated

I didn’t kno to drive a trailer, and I’d had to learn almost in a trial-by-fire type way

Granddad had entered these cows into the show, and when he got sick, he couldn’t back out because he’d had a ‘gentlereement’ with the livestock place, whatever the hell that meant

I’d tried to tell hiether next week, but he would hear none of it

Take them, Codie You can do it; I have faith in you Plus, if you have any trouble, an old friend that lives on the next farm over will be there to help you if you have any problems

Gritting my teeth, I followed the trailer in front ofa bitch at the very end of it, co to a stop behind a pretty silver trailer