Chapter 6Theo
After making sure all the horses were inside, fed, watered, and happy, I fed the dogs. The girls liked to stay at the stable overnight, thought of it as their space to guard, but Bucky followed me to my cabin almost every night. I’d installed a doggy door, and if the weather turned, I found Bucky on his dog bed with one or more of the barn cats curled up with him by the plug-in radiator I had for the colder seasons.
Once the dogs were happy, I walked across the yard to my place. There were two cabins by the patch of trees that lined the property next to the pond. An oak grew between the cabins, shading them both during the hottest months, and providing privacy despite the buildings being quite close to one another.
They’d been built as guest cabins, but I had claimed one w
