The rains showed up the last week in October. The ground turned to mud that promptly froze as the temperature dropped overnight, and there was nothing left to be done on the farm. At least not for Jordan. Beckett would spend the next few months out in the orchard, assessing his trees and pruning and trimming. He’d gotten rid of what he could over the past few weeks, but there were some things that just couldn’t be done until the trees were bare. Ultimately that was something he and Cory would handle.
Beck knew Jordan’s time working on the farm was coming to an end.
Jordan knew it, too. Beckett tried to keep him there and keep him engaged by finding things for Jordan to help with. But Jordan was growing restless, and he knew what Beckett was doing. He flat out balked when Beck tried to pa
