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recited the order for the waitress. He had a cup of coffee while he waited, taking the time to think back over the events of the day.
    He’d never been on a family holiday. His parents had never had the extra money to waste on a special trip. Occasionally, his mother would take Logan and his younger brother somewhere exciting. Once they spent the day at the zoo and another day on the beach. He imagined that his road trip with Sunny might be something like the typical family holiday.
    They’d sung songs to each other and played trivia games, they’d told silly childhood stories, and she’d quoted Shakespeare from the book she found in campervan. And then, there were times when they were just quiet, watching the scenery pass by, lost in their own thoughts.
    The waitress delivered their dinner, packed in two paper sacks. They still had cold drinks in the cooler, purchased along the route that day. He got to the door, then remembered Sunny’s request for dessert and returned to the counter. “How much for the rest of that chocolate cake?” he asked.
    “You want a half a cake?” the waitress asked, eyebrows raised.
    Logan nodded. “My girlfriend loves chocolate.”
    “I don’t know. There’s probably six pieces there. I’d say twelve dollars?”
    He laid out the cash and waited as she packed the cake into a box, then tied it with a string. It wasn’t much, but he knew it would please her. And for some reason, he felt the need to do that more often. Wasn’t that part of romance, making those tiny gestures?
    When he got back to the caravan park, Tally was grazing on a clump of hay out of the rack on the side of the trailer. Sunny had filled a bucket of water and clipped it next to the hay. The horse looked up at him as he passed, blinking silently. “You’re a pretty girl,” he said.
    The lights were on inside the campervan, and music drifted out from the CD player. He looked through the door to see Sunny straightening up the small galley kitchen. He knocked on the door and she turned and smiled.
    “Honey, I’m home.”
    A tiny giggle slipped from her lips and she opened the door for him and stepped aside. “Hello, honey, how was your day?”
    “Oh, honey, it was wonderful. How was your day?”
    “Just lovely,” she said. “Now give me my cheeseburger. I’m famished.”
    They sat down at the table and spread the food out in front of them, sharing the chocolate malt between them. When that was gone, Logan fetched a couple of beers, removing the caps before setting the bottles on the table.
    “I talked to the park manager. They don’t treat the grass here, so we can let Tally graze.”
    “Great,” he said.
    “I noticed there was an old saddle in the trailer. I was thinking I might get up early tomorrow, before we have to leave, and put her through her paces. Would that be all right with you?”
    Logan nodded. “Just don’t get too attached to her.”
    “I won’t,” Sunny said. “I know she’s meant for someone else.”
    In a different life, he might have been able to make a gift of the horse. What would it be like to have that kind of financial freedom? He’d already had doubts that he could make the ranch work. There were times when all the scrimping and saving just wore him out.
    “How many horses to do you have on your ranch?”
    “I started with six mares and I have twenty-six now. I breed them artificially.”
    “We do, too. Although we own the three stallions that we use for that. It’s sad that the mares never get to enjoy that particular pleasure.”
    “Pleasure?”
    Sunny grinned. “Yeah, I know, it isn’t a pretty sight when they do it the natural way.” She took a bite of her cheeseburger. “Thank goodness, humans know how to do it better.”
    He chuckled softly. “Thank goodness.”
    They lingered over the meal, chatting about Logan’s ranch and his theories about horse breeding. He imagined this was what it would be like to have a woman in his life full-time. Meals