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Chapter 31

Upon returning to the farm, Ward and Joe unhitched the team and the boys rode them back to the orchard where Ike and Mike resumed their dozing under the apple trees. The women stayed behind to get dinner ready, while Joe and Mr. Cartwright took Tyler’s dad and the boys on a tour of the farm. Ward walked along beside Tyler.

The tour ended in the hayloft, where Joe, Ward, Tyler, and the boys engaged in a rousing game of hide and seek. Ward was beside Tyler as they lay hidden behind a stack of bales while the boys searched for them. Ward quietly reminded Tyler of how they used to build secret rooms out of the bales hidden in dark corners of the loft. There they could sneak off to have sex—which ultimately, over the years, had turned into making love.