“Don’t express regret once more. You’re not allowed to say that phrase… in any respect.”

I sigh with aid. I had no concept what she was going to ask of me, however that I can do.

“I promise. Now, will you stop stalling and prepare so we will get out of right here and stretch our legs and the horses’?”

She jogs away. It’s the happiest I’ve seen Harper in such a very long time. It’s superb to see how far she’s come. I simply hate that she’s so far-off from me.

“She’s doing properly, son,” says Valerie, Harper’s mum, as she joins me within the kitchen.

“It is good to see.”

“What are your plans for a wonderful day?”

“Driving, I imagine. Harper desires to experience Snowdrop.”

“Recent air will do you each good.”

I nod. “Do you ever neglect how one can experience? I can’t keep in mind the final time I climbed on a horse, by no means thoughts experience one.”

She laughs. “it’s like using a motorcycle. Have some enjoyable. You each deserve that greater than something on this world.”

Harper picks that second to affix us. She has become denims and a t-shirt. The denims make me see how a lot weight she has misplaced, however a short while at residence and her mum may have her again to her regular self. Nobody can resist home made meals.

“Prepared?” she asks me.

“If we’re not again earlier than sunset, ship a search celebration.”

All of us giggle, and I observe Harper out of the home by way of the again door. Already, I’m calmer, and I can’t wait to see the place we find yourself immediately.

***

We pull up beside a burn on the foot of the Ochil Hills, and Snowdrop and Diesel lap up the water. Harper and I sit on the bottom with the horses at both facet of us.

I discover it exhilarating being outdoors within the wilderness. We used to experience so much after we had been youngsters. With our households proudly owning farms, we had been by no means away from fields and animals. Some would say it wasn’t an important life, nevertheless it was for us. We had every thing we ever needed after which some. The adventures had been superb.

“What are you serious about?” asks Harper.

“Rising up across the farm and the good outdoor.”

“It isn’t for everybody.”

“I agree. Are you able to keep in mind the party you had, when everybody went horse using first? Do you keep in mind Camila? She needed to go on Dexter, essentially the most unpredictable horse ever, and he tossed her off.”

Harper giggled. “Dexter had a very good decide of character. If he didn’t such as you, there was no experience. He had Camilla pegged; she was a bitch.”

“I’m wondering what occurred to her.”

“In all probability married some wealthy man and lives a lifetime of luxurious.” Harper rolls her eyes.

“And right here we’re, sitting on the similar burn, with the identical horses we did almost ten years in the past.”

Harper jumps up. Race you again to the farm. Loser orders dinner.”

“Deal.”

Harper is on Snowdrop and off earlier than I even get my foot within the stirrup.

I intentionally wish to be final right here as a result of watching Harper gallop by way of the fields, wind in her hair, cheeks rosy… it’s an image I by no means wish to erase from my reminiscence.

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