I am wide awake by nine o'clock. I decide to celebrate the dayen femme out shopping. So I real quick wet my hair and use thedrier to fluff it out and ...hape it. I use mousse and spray toget the lift and my bangs where I want them. It looks so cutewhen I am done that I can't get the satisfied grin off my face.My hair has grown out to such a nice length and shape thesedays. I dig out some cute earrings, gold hoops. I slip them intothe lowest hole in each ear. I find a pair of small diamondstuds. They met in a bar and during the course of their evening the conversation had gone to places she hadn’t been with boyfriends she’d known for two years or more and though she was in the home of a man she didn’t know she felt excited rather than scared or worried.He returned to the room and stood smiling down at her.He offered his two hands which she took and he raised her up to stand before him.He stood very close as he reached behind her to find the zip of her dress and the coil of rope over. Why would his people wish to see her gone? He knew not everyone approved, but he thought they would come to accept her as they had Sky Eyes once she proved herself to the tribe. He stopped just short of the village perimeter, examining how the horseman had mingled his horse’s hoof prints with many others. He checked the freshness of the tracks, some were days old, while others had been there for weeks or longer. Then he picked out a distinguishing feature of the trail he’d followed since he. He kissed the top of her head gently, so as not to waken her and he let his thoughts wander to the life they would have together. She wouldn’t have to work, there was no need for her to work. He was one of the state’s richest men, with a cattle ranch, and oil to boot. He would give more of the day to day operation of his ranch to his foreman, and the oil, well, he could hire people to oversee that as well. He wanted her life to be full of all the fun things, things that they had both.