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“Goddammit,” Xavier spit through his teeth. “God dammit!” he said a little bit louder now. 
                  “Now, you looked at me straight in the eyes and you said you weren’t coming to bring any trouble,” Ben scolded me.
                  “Don’t worry, Ben. She fooled me, too. You just go on ahead and take her right on back with you.  She’s not wanted or welcomed here.” He turned from us and started walking in the opposite direction.
                  I opened my satchel and yanked the papers out. “Xavier, just sign these papers and you’ll never have to see me again!” I yelled out to him.
                  He didn’t stop.  I ran after him and all the workers moved out of my way.  The men tipped their hats at me, and the women all nodded.  He stomped into the horse stables while three men followed him.  They all wore the same style gear.  Wranglers, huge belt buckles, and plaid or solid shirts.  Oh and they wore boots. All I could see were boots and more boots. 
                  “Xavier!”
                  He still didn’t slow.  He went into a stall and I tucked my jeans into my boots. 
                  “Just sign the damn papers, and I’ll leave you alone,” I yelled over the stall at him. 
                  The three men in the barn snickered at me. 
                  I jumped up and down, trying to get some kind of reaction to him.  He acted as if I wasn’t even standing there. 
                  “Just give me the damn divorce.”
                  He walked out of the stall and then I shoved the papers in his face.  He never once looked at me.  He walked into another stall. I held the papers over the stall, but he wouldn’t take them. 
                  The men were still laughing at me and it was pissing me off.  I growled as I pulled the papers back from over the stall. I dropped the papers in a pile of what I prayed was not manure.  I screamed at the top of my lungs, bent over through one of the gaps in the fence to get the papers, and there was a loud thud.
                  Xavier yelled my name and then everything went dark.  
     
     
     
     
     

 
     
    Chapter 3
    The Bride
     
                  Once again, my head was swimming and I could not latch on to my surroundings.  I felt a soft bed under me, and there were at least six, maybe seven, pillows. I reached out to both of sides, not knowing what I was reaching for.  I opened my eyes, but there was nothing but darkness.  I didn’t see a strip of light anywhere.  I’d gone blind.
                  I remembered that I had been in the stables arguing with Xavier, and there was a loud thud.  My head was throbbing, but now I was blind, and I didn’t know where I was.  I started screaming and crying.  I yelled and screamed some more, and nothing.  Where was I?
                  “Help me! Please! Help me!”  I looked around and around, and nothing came to view. 
                  “Phoebe,” I heard Xavier yelling for me.
                  I heard someone running towards me.  I screamed even louder. I heard a thump at the door, and then the room was filled with lights.  There were lights in the ceiling, coming from the walls, and at both sides of the California king bed I was on. 
                  Xavier ran over to me and jumped in the bed with me, pulling me up against him.
                  “What’s wrong? Are you hurt?”
                  “I thought I was blind,” I cried out into his chest. 
                  “What?”
                  “I couldn’t see anything. There was no light. I couldn’t see.”
                  “I’m sorry, baby. I didn’t leave a light on for you.  I didn’t think about what would happen if