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her Aunt that she didn’t remember her.
    Aunt Caroline couldn’t take her eyes off her niece. She couldn’t believe her sister’s daughter was home after being missing for ten years. That evening the family stayed up late getting reacquainted.

CHAPTER NINE
     
    Rosa pulled the horses in the direction of the path towards a large house. The drive from the road to the big white house was at least a mile long. From the road, the place looked huge.
    Cassandra looked around as they rode closer to the house. It was big, but needed lots of work. The barn seemed in worse shape, parts of the back falling in. Cassandra didn’t know what to think. Hard times must have hit them over the past couple years.
    She didn’t want to think that these people wasted money on other things and not fixing the place up. The house looked like it could use a coat of paint, a few cracked windows fixed and the flower beds were a mess.
    She shrugged off the poor feeling when she heard a woman yelling from the porch. She was an older, her grandmother maybe. Cassandra watched Makenzie ride ahead to meet the woman. Rosa stopped the buck board close to the house, the older woman stood staring at her, but didn’t move. Tears ran down the woman’s face. Her hands were red from twisting them.
    Cassandra climbed down and walked over to the gray haired woman. She too was now crying.
    “Grandma,” Makenzie started to say when her grandmother interrupted her.
    “Cassie, oh my dear Cassie, look at you.” The older woman gave Cassandra a squeeze.
    “Grandma,” Cassandra whispered to the woman.
    Rosa climbed down and stood by Kenzie, when Anna stopped hugging Cassandra, Kenzie introduced Cassandra’s traveling companion. Cassandra had not explained that Rosa was her housekeeper. There would be plenty of time for minor details.
    They all went into the house while Rooks, the ranch hand who stayed close to the house, took the animals to the barn.
    Inside the house, Cassandra looked around the foyer, she didn’t know what to expect. The house was in some need of repair, but for the most part, it looked beautiful. The foyer was wide with a stair way going up the back wall, open for the length of the foyer in the back. She followed her Grandmother into what she considered must be the parlor.
    A huge fire place stood on the far wall. She could see a door close to the west wall that was closed.
    “Cassandra, Rosa, please sit down and I will make some tea.” Anna told the two women and then exited the room into the foyer.
    Cassandra heard a baby cry from upstairs.
    Kenzie stood and faced Cassandra. “Please excuse me while I go check on them.” She was in the foyer and up the steps before anyone could say a word.
    Rosa smiled at Cassandra... They were enjoying this trip so much. So many wonderful things had happened in the last week. Cassandra didn’t think her life could get better.
    Soon Kenzie came down and took Cassandra up to meet Elizabeth and Joseph Greenwood. Cassandra was so happy. She felt like little Joey, being born again with her Colorado sister and brother. The past was now the past, where it would stay.
    The next few days were filled with stories, Cassandra never revealed the full extent of her station in life. She didn’t want her family thinking she was just a rich busy body trying to flaunt her money. Especially now that she has seen how run down the place was.

CHAPTER TEN
     
    Cassandra decided to go for a ride. She was reunited with Paisley, the horse she got for her seventh birthday. She didn’t remember the gift of course, but Kenzie had told her all about the party and the horse they each received. Paisley, the horses name was a wonder to everyone.
    Cassandra never told anyone why she named her horse Paisley, now she didn’t even know herself. Now no one will know.
    She found a spot by the river with a big boulder with a view overlooking the beautiful flow of the water. Sitting there taking in all the beauty of the Rockies. Oh how