This day, he managed to ride alone after pointing out to Annette that she was unsafe with him on the rougher terrain. His suggestion that she travel o... the wagon was met with a firm shake of her head. She had loved the feeling of riding a horse – even if her rump had not.“Then you should ride with our most experienced horsewoman,” the king decided, gesturing to Liala. “I am fine on the flat ground, Annette, but we are entering hills and slopes. I do not know how Blaze will react – and I do not. She imagined that all her mother would have to do was take one look at her face to see the guilt written there.But then the bitter thought ran through her mind--would her mother really care what she was doing? She never seemed to pay any attention to her any more. It was just those awful men she had taken up with and that damned liquor. Patty felt a twinge of guilt shoot through her for harboring these unkind thoughts about tier mother, but sometimes she couldn't help it. Oh, sure, she. Thinamum kama kathaigalai padithu vittu viral poduven, uncle ennai oopathaaga ninaithu kondu kuthiyil viral poduven.En veetirku adikadi avar thaan vanthu povar, en amma naangal pesuvathai ethuvum kandu kola maatargal. Appavum uncle idam pesuvathai ethum kandu kola maatar, athanaal naan suthanthiramaaga uncle idam pesi pazhaguven. Oru naal uncle veetirku vanthu irunthaar, appozhuthu appa veetil illai amma thotathil irunthaargal.Naan uncle ule varungal endru sollinen, kudika neer tharugiren endru. Our ranch isn’t for sale.”Jim stepped back and closed the door, leaving the stranger standing on the front steps.Jim ignored the man’s loud knocking on the door. Five minutes later he watched the lawyer and his man disappear down the narrow gravel road winding down Virginian Ridge to the valley.“Who was that, dear?” Vi wiped her hands on a kitchen towel. The aroma of hot rhubarb-apple cobbler wafted along with her when she stepped into the front room. Jim stood puzzled and half angry.“Beats me..