“He met Lucy on the road last night,” Julie filled in with a mock-panicked look that stung even more than an eye roll.
“Not a chance I’m going to tangle with any of you,” Nathan concluded. “The kid could probably throw me down already since she’s yours.”
“I’ve met Lucy,” Emily shuddered. “Never seen anything look so big in my life. Mark had taken me out to a fishing stream one of my first times on the ranch. I was sitting there not hurting a fly, just reading a book. Then this huge cow came out of nowhere and tried to eat my straw hat while I was still wearing it. My scream spooked Mark face-first into the stream—didn’t seem to bother Lucy a bit.”
Julie laughed. “Hard to imagine anything scaring you.”
“I’m not some superwoman. Just an Army pilot now retired. I grew up in Washington, DC
