She looked as if she was about to cry but she didn’t. ‘It’s okay. I hardly remember her. If it wasn’t for the photos of her that my Dad has ev...rywhere, I wouldn’t even miss her,’ she said. A dumb question but thinking that he needed to stay on the subject of her mother, he asked. ‘Did she look like you?’ Feeling stupid, as soon as he asked the question, he regretted asking her that. He imagined a woman as tall, as sexy, and as beautiful, albeit older, as she was. He imagined her growing and. It was also completely caged off so there'd be no possibility of someone examining it too closely and getting their ass fried.The most interesting things in the garage were the farming tools. All of the first bunch I saw were horse drawn, but what the hell. We had plenty of horses and now we had plenty of implements. Our hay cutting wasn't going to be done by hand after all. We had a horse drawn sickle mower and a horse drawn baler.The baler was going to be a tremendous help. Even though I. Susie blushed and cringed inwardly, realizing he had probably been watching her. She glanced down the bar to find her eyes meeting with two of the bluest eyes she'd ever witnessed. She could clearly see how light they were from four chairs down. The man smiled, and she realized she was gawking. She flashed an embarrassed smile and quickly looked the other direction, trying to compose herself, but praying he would come over to chat.She knew without looking that he was beside her now. She could. Moreth turned his head and nodded with a polite smile, ‘Good morning.’ He had alarm bells going off all over the inside of his head in an instant, from just one look into her eyes from thirty feet away. ‘Mornin’ Hun,’ the woman behind the counter said, ‘What’ll you have, Darlin’?’ ‘I think I’m going to need two large regular coffees, two butter croissants, and a toasted sesame seed bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese, please.’ He shook his head a little, ‘It sounds really dumb if I say it.