Chapter 5Rey
Theo being depressed was weird and worrying, but everyone kept telling me he’d be fine given time and support, so I chose to believe that.
About a month or so in our stay in Illinois, Lake finally printed out the manuscript he was potentially going to finish and took it outside to the nice chairs.
River was interviewing for a position at a family clinic in town somewhere, so I decided to brave the outdoors. Kind of.
I grabbed my horse behavior book and went to sit right inside the back door. It was a calm moment. Sometimes there was a rustle of wind and it brought in the smell of horses, or I could hear a neigh from the paddocks.
I don’t know how long we’d been there. The sun moved across the sky, and everything was just so…pleasant.
“Be careful,” Lake said suddenly.
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