Four
“Aunt Shannon, what are you doing here?”
She took the coat belonging to the little boy who looked so like her brother off its peg in the arctic entry of the rural schoolhouse and held it out to him. “Didn’t your mom and dad tell you I was picking you up today?”
“Uh….”
“Yeah, they did, Ant,” the boy’s blonde-haired, green-eyed sister piped, stuffing her arms into the coat Shannon now held out for her. “They told us last night, ‘member?”
“I guess. Oh! You’re taking us horseback riding with Ty Evans, right?”
“That’s right, and we don’t have a ton of time to get up to the Bar E if we want more than a few minutes of daylight to ride, so let me just go talk to Mrs. Fitzwater for a second, and then we’ll head up.”
“Hunter and Emma are coming, too, aren’t they?” Ant asked.
“Yes, but t
