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Russell quickly answered as
he shoved his hands into his front pockets.
    “Could have fooled me.” She looked right at
Tyson. “What are you doing out here?”
    “I suppose the same as you. Staying away from
home.”
    Eric took off his hat and ran his hand over
his hair, then replaced it. “You two are pathetic. You should get
homes of your own. I’m going back to the house.”
    Eric walked out, and his brothers followed,
but Tyson stayed with his sister as she began to take the bridle
off her horse.
    “How was your ride?”
    “Good,” she said as she unfastened the cinch
and tossed it up over the saddle. “Why are you staying away from
home?”
    “Just not in the mood,” he said as he reached
out and took the saddle off the horse for his sister. “You take
this with you?”
    “No, I store all my tack here.”
    He nodded and placed the saddle along the
wall with the others. “You still could keep him at home.”
    She shook her head as she took the blanket
off the horse’s back. “I’m like you. It’s nicer to hide over
here.”
    “Eric was right. We are pathetic.”
    “You more so than me. I get out and see
people. I go to town all the time. I’m here all the time. I have
businesses and properties and…”
    “I get it,” he said picking up a grooming
brush. “I went to town today. It wasn’t so bad. And I’m here now,
and I’m staying for dinner.”
    He watched her rise from the other side of
the horse and look at him though she barely could see over the
animal. “You went to town?”
    “Got fitted for the tux.”
    “Good. You saw Pearl then?”
    He shrugged as he brushed the horse. “Yeah, I
saw her.”
    “She’s single you know,” she said as she took
the bridle from the horse.
    “So what?”
    “Just saying.”
    Tyson lifted the brim of his hat. “We had a
drink or two. I think she had three. I took her home after.”
    His sister appeared next to him. “You went
out?”
    Tyson held his hands up as if in surrender
from her questions. “Just a friendly drink. Thought I needed it
after she felt me up with the tape measure and all.”
    Lydia let out a laugh. “She wasn’t feeling
you up.”
    “I beg to differ.”
    She planted her hands on her hips and looked
up at him. “Did you enjoy it at least?”
    He winced and lowered the brim of his hat.
“Let’s just say I was social and leave it at that. She has a
reputation that I don’t need a part of.”
    “She had a reputation, and you’re no saint.”
Lydia picked up another brush and moved to the other side of the
horse. “She’s a very successful business woman, and we're going
into business together. She's my new partner.”
    Tyson rested his hands on the top of the
horse’s back and looked over to his sister. “How many things are
you going to take on?”
    “As many as I can. Why sit around and wait
for Grandpa to die and inherit what he’s made? I want my own.
Besides, what happens if he loses it all? You know that gamble with
Bryon Walker was part of his doing too. Sure the Walkers were the
ones thinking they were going to lose all their land, but it could
happen to us. I love him, but it doesn’t mean I have to like how he
does things.”
    Tyson eased back and brushed the horse.
    His sister was one of the wisest people he
knew, and all that wisdom was shoved into a five-foot frame. He
chuckled to himself. There was a lot to learn from her.
     
    Being invited to a caterer’s house for dinner
had its perks. Susan was trying out new recipes, and since she was
a vegetarian, she’d invited the others to try meat filled
dishes.
    Tyson wondered if she’d invited more than
Eric’s brothers and his sister. There was enough food to feed a
small army. No wonder she’d been quick with the invitation.
    “I’m going to finalize the cake plans
Monday,” she said as they all ate and she moved salad around on her
plate with her fork. “I like the red icing design, but red icing is
nasty.”
    Lydia looked up. “All of your