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show you around and get you started.”
    â€œIs there a chance I could start now? I can’t pay you for the room last night or for our meals today. But there’s enough hours left in the afternoon for me to get even if not ahead.”
    Dominic couldn’t restrain the words bursting from his mouth. “Cissy, slow down. It’s Sunday. Y’all just got what I imagine was your first good night of sleep in a while. Give the boys a chance to settle in and enjoy a couple days’ rest with them first.”
    â€œNo.” She brushed him off, turning back to Logan.
    Dominic was ready to fire back but Logan shot him a sharp look before saying, “Okay. But you’ll need more space with the boys if you’re gonna be here for a while. We’ll go move your things to Dom’s old rooms on the first floor. Then we’ll get started. And I’ve got a friend that’ll fix your car up at a decent price. I’ll have it towed out to him.”
    â€œThanks, Logan,” she said, pumping his hand and smiling brightly before ducking under the fence and sprinting toward the boys.
    â€œWhat the hell are you doing?” Dominic spat, glaring at Logan. “You gonna work her on a Sunday? She just pulled off the road.”
    â€œYou heard her, Dom. It’s what she wants to do.”
    â€œYeah, I heard. But that’s when you talk some sense into her and tell her to hold off for a few days.” He watched her slow to a jog as she reached the boys. “Wouldn’t it be better to let the boys settle in first before she hits the ground running?”
    â€œProbably. But that’s not what she wants, baby brother.” Logan pushed off the fence and smirked. “And my advice would be to not try to talk her out of it. She doesn’t seem to be the type to pander about.”
    Dominic sucked his teeth. That was for damn sure. But it was still worth a try.
    His profile tingled under Logan’s intense scrutiny.
    â€œEasy, bro,” Logan said, his voice firm. “You get tangled up in this and it’ll trip you up when you get ready to hit the road again. Besides, you left me in charge of running the place. So it’s not really up to you. That is, of course, unless you changed your mind and intend to stay put.”
    Dominic’s shoulder tensed. He refused to face him.
    â€œYeah—” Logan’s voice drifted off as he ducked under the fence and moved away “—that’s about what I expected.”
    Dominic flinched. It wasn’t so much Logan’s words that wounded. It was the way he said them. The wry tone. As though there were no other possible outcome but for Dominic to disappear again.
    He could hear him now. Typical Dom. Give him an inch and he’ll run ten miles.
    Though he couldn’t blame Logan. He hadn’t been much of a brother to him lately. Or at all, for that matter.
    A crack of laughter rang out across the paddock.
    Kayden straddled Pop’s shoulders and whipped a lasso over his head. “Keep still, Jayden. I got it now,” he called out, his voice faint but discernible.
    Pissed though he was, that wrenched a chuckle from Dominic. Less than half an hour and that boy had his hands on another rope. Pop had probably handed his rope over to the boy as easily as Dominic had this morning. Pop always turned into a sucker when it came to kids.
    The lasso whirled through the air and looped neatly around Jayden, who stood a few feet away, hands by his sides. Cissy unwound the lasso from Jayden. Kayden scrambled off Pop’s shoulders, keeping hold of his end of the rope.
    â€œNicely done, Kayden,” Cissy called. “Now give the rope back.”
    â€œNope. Pop said I could have it.”
    â€œKayden, you don’t need it.”
    â€œYes, I do.”
    â€œNo, you don’t.”
    â€œYes, I do.”
    They struggled in a tug of war for a moment before Kayden snatched it from her grasp and