“Jessie, there’s no real reason for us to go back to the hacienda now. Lita and her people there will learn to take care of themselves without our help. We’ve done our job, as far as stopping the cartel’s concerned. Brad Close can take his punchers to the Tres Cerros ranch and drive his cattle home anytime.”
“I was thinking the same thing, Ki. Unless you want to say goodbye to Lita—”
“No. Lita belongs to the past now. We live in the present, and need to be thinking about the future.”
“We’ll ride on into San Pedro and take the shortest way back to the Circle Star, then,” Jessie said.
“Do you want to stop at Fort Chaplin?” Ki asked.
Jessie shook her head. “No. That belongs to the past too, Ki. I haven’t any reason to go back there, either.”
Ki and Jessie relaxed in the companionable silence that has no need for conversation as they reined their horses toward the road and began the long trip home.
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