Chapter 108

Camille was awake, dressed, and pulling up at Blackwater Ranch before sunrise. Noah said that he and a ranch hand named Jameson were taking some calves to the auction today, and she’d asked if she could tag along. Granted, all of that had been before she knew she needed to get up before the roosters.

She parked next to the main house and grabbed her new cowboy hat out of the passenger seat. She’d gotten a walnut colored one to match Noah’s, and she was beginning to feel lost without it.

She spotted Noah by the truck with the trailer behind it and waved. Trotting up beside him, she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a quick kiss. “Morning, handsome.”

“Morning, beautiful.”

Camille looked around and realized the calves were already loaded. “How long have you been up?”

“I’ve been out and about since five. We separated the calves yesterday, but I still needed to load them when the sun came up.”

And she’d been silently groaning about their six a.m. meeting. “Do you sleep?”

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