Chapter 10
“Been considering it, yeah,” Ward said, thinking of Tyler.
“So, when do you start at the mill?”
“Don’t know for sure. Tyler’s gonna check with his dad.”
“Huh,” the elder Cartwright humphed in a cynical tone. “The old man needs to get on with retirement and let the boy take over. Soon’s one of you two get settled, that’s what I’m gonna do. But sometimes I think Hell’ll freeze over first.”
They both laughed.
Just then Joe returned with the empty hay wagon. They went back to work.Chapter 4
Tyler, Eddie, and Jack sat at the oval dining room table with Hiram and Emily Pierce—Tiffany’s parents. They were an older couple, having had Tiffany when both were in their forties. Hiram was short and squat, as was his wife. Tyler had always thought of them as a pair of toads. He had often wondered how such plain people could have given birth to a daughter as beautiful as Tiffany. Both were very religious.