“Where you headed Injun?”“Well Paleface, I was headed out to Mr. Canady’s spread when I got sidetracked.”“Hell you say. I’m Elizabeth Ca...ady, youngest daughter of Dale Canady, is that the stud daddy wants to breed his mare to?”“Yep, he saw me in town and asked me to come out. I guess we’ll be spending the night in the barn, I don’t leave my horse anywhere.”“Daddy told me about it, but he didn’t say anything about you being an injun or you being so big.”“Well it was my horse that he wanted, not. He and Miles both laughed and said tonight was their lucky night. As Deb walked back out carrying two glasses of Pepsi they thanked her and sat down. Deb got back into the pool and onto her float taking her drink. She took a sip and made a face saying it tasted funny causing both boys to look alarmed. She smiled and said that warm wine and flat Sprite always tasted funny and then took the glass and drank the remainder quickly. She got back out of the pool and prepared herself another drink and. After I parked the car I reached over and unbuttoned the next button. I reminded her that she hadn’t unbuttoned one after the last winery. I had two more to go after this one.The girls were getting quite tipsy and the guy serving the wine tried to shut them off but I stepped forward and told him that I was the designated driver and then I slipped ten dollars into his tip jar.He smiled at me and then he started serving them a little more in each glass compared to what the last few places had. Looking in the mirror at the end of it at all, I wasn’t fully satisfied with what I saw, but then again, I never truly was. I settled for how I thought I looked and stepped out the door, anxiously making my way across campus to where I now knew Dallas’ office was. The gate to enter the building was unlocked as he promised it would be, I opened it quietly and stepped through, softly making steps toward the door to his office. And once I arrived there, there was a pulling moment of hesitation. I.