24
WILLOW
I marched to the end of the Shefield property and split the barbed wire to step between it.
Rob and I had repaired the fence where the bull came through, but I had yet to confront Markle about it. I’d been saving it as an excuse to be on his property at some point. And truthfully? I’d been too wrapped up in spending time with Rob for the last week to use that excuse.
Now? It was time.
I’d wasted a week, but now I was back on the job.
Except the time hadn’t been wasted. It had been everything I needed to live. Now it was all gone. Returning to the life I had before Rob felt like jumping in a lake with cement shoes on.
Nothing could be done about that.
I’d hurt him. He wasn’t going to forgive me. Even if he did, I couldn’t stay. I had a job back in Phoenix. Or wherever I we
