by Tasha Black
Meow, mmm-meow, meow, mmm-meow…
Cleo.
She tried to pull back from the kiss, but found she was no longer in Burton’s arms.
She opened her eyes.
The pink light of dawn filled her bedroom.
The dream was over.
She squeezed her eyes shut again, hoping she could bring it back for just a minute.
Meow, mmm-meow…
Well, that part hadn’t been a dream.
Tansy sat up and saw Cleo sitting outside on the windowsill, gazing at her with more than a little reproach in her yellow eyes.
“Sorry, your majesty,” Tansy said, hoping out of bed to open the window. “If you’d been having that dream you wouldn’t have wanted to wake up either.”
Cleo blinked at her and leapt inside and onto the floor, more flowing than actually landing on her feathery paws.
As Tansy watched, the fluffy tabby padded over to her bed, sailed effortlessly onto the pillows, turned around twice, curled herself into a furry ball, and went promptly to sleep.
“No snoozing for me today,” Tansy said, smiling at her feline friend.
Tansy wasn’t much of a snoozer anyway. She had way too much to do out here on the farm.
On the way to the bathroom she could hear Sage banging around in the kitchen and humming the theme song to Friends.
Tansy smiled. Her sister wasn’t usually the type to hum. She must be enjoying having Arden around to pal around with.
In the kitchen Sage banged out the tat-tat-tat-tat-TAT drum part on the counter.
Tansy’s eyebrows went up in surprise.
That kind of abandon was downright out of character for Sage.
Maybe there was something more to her good mood than Tansy had suspected…
It was hard not to think of Riggs. The gentle giant seemed to be quite enamored of her sensible sister.
And it would have been impossible even for Sage not to notice how hot he was. Could something be going on between them?
“Breakfast in ten minutes,” Sage yelled up happily.
“Awesome,” Tansy yelled back.
She dashed into the bathroom, hoping a quick hot shower would clear the romance out of her head.
For all that she was dreaming of Burton, and even mentally matchmaking Sage and Riggs in her head, there really was no time for any of it. She had big problems to solve in the real world, namely saving the farm where she hoped to spend the rest of her life.
If they couldn’t get it together in time for the tourist farm to open for peach picking season, there would be no way they could avoid selling the place just to pay the taxes.
And Tansy was not going to sell Grandma Helen’s farm. The orchard and berry fields and the old farmhouse were the backdrop for all the happiest memories of her childhood.
She glanced in the bathroom mirror at her own twinkly blue eyes, so much like her grandmother’s. Whenever she missed Helen so much she couldn’t bear it, she had no further to look than the mirror to remember her.
Don’t worry, Grandma Helen, I won’t lose our farm.
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