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toast and eggs.
    "Sure, if you want to." Marcus said with a smile.
    "Can I ride Tonka?" He asked, hopping up and down in his
seat.
    "Yeah, sure—"
    "No, absolutely not!" Lindsey countered, glaring at
Marcus. "Maybe when you're older, okay buddy?"
    "But Lauren gets to ride! I want to ride also! She says that
it will be a really big parade, and everyone will be watching. She
says only the losers don't ride in the parade."
    "I don't care what she says. The answer is no."
    "Come on Lindsey, he's just a kid."
    "No! I won't risk it do you understand me? How could you even
suggest—"
    "The chances of something happening—"
    "I won't take that chance!" Lindsey stood up in anger and
brought her plate to the sink. "The answer is no Garrett."
    The little boy hung his head and started to cry.
    Marcus sighed and stood. "Thanks for breakfast, but I have to
get back to work."
    "I'm going into town to look for a job and another place to
stay." Lindsey called after him as he walked down the front
steps and towards the barn.
    "Suit yourself." He called back.
    In town Garrett dragged his feet and wouldn't stop complaining as
Lindsey went from bank to bank looking for work and filling out job
applications. She was only sorry that she'd left in such a hurry,
and couldn't get proper references from her prior job as an
accountant.
    "Garrett! Stop it this instant! I don't want to hear anymore
complaining, do you understand?"
    "But Marcus said I could so I wanna!"
    "I won't argue with you about this. Now when we go inside I
want you to sit down and behave nice while I talk with the people
about a job. Okay?"
    Garrett crossed his arms over his little chest and stuck out his
bottom lip, but was otherwise silent as Lindsey went into the bank
to apply for a job.

The day continued in much the same fashion as Lindsey drove around
the small town and looked for both work and a place to stay.
Several people in town remembered her and gave her a frigid hello
as she drove around but otherwise the time she spent in town was
uneventful.
    "I'm hungry." Garrett complained as they drove back
towards Marcus's ranch.
    "I know, I know. I'll make dinner as soon as we get home."
    "But I wanna eat now!"
    "Garrett, I said—" Lindsey turned her head for just
a second, but when she turned back she let out a scream and slammed
the breaks. Her head hit the steering wheel with a good smack, but
otherwise the long horned steer turned to look at her –
unhurt – and then walked slowly the rest of the way across
the street.
    "Garrett, are you okay?" Lindsey spun around, head
pounding, to look at her child.
    He nodded with large frightened eyes but otherwise seemed okay.
"Yeah." He said in a near whisper. "I'm sorry
momma."
    Lindsey laughed but it sent such a pain through her head that she
stopped and winced instead, bringing her hand up to touch the
tender spot. When her fingers came away slick with blood she
groaned and wiped them on her pants.
    "Are you okay momma?"
    "Yeah baby, I'm fine." Lindsey turned her eyes back to
the road as she took her foot off the break pedal and drove slowly
back home. Her head continued to throb as she drove, forcing her to
go slower and slower so that she could concentrate on the stretch
of dark road ahead of her. When she spotted the gravel road and
sign that marked Marcus's ranch she sighed in relief and found
herself driving a little faster the rest of the way towards the
well-lit house.
    By the time she put the car in park and turned off the engine her
temple was throbbing, making her dizzy and nauseated.
    "Momma?" Garrett asked in a worried voice as she pushed
her car door open and struggled to get out.
    Lindsey grabbed the doorframe for support as she tried to gather
her legs under her. When she pushed herself upright her vision spun
and her stomach heaved inside her.

"Momma are you okay?" Garrett unbuckled himself from his
seat and with some difficulty got out of the car to come to where
she stood on shaking legs.
    Lindsey heard her