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“Are you ready to keep your promise to me?”

“Promise?” He looked at her blankly.

“You can’t have forgotten. You promised you’d wait until I grew up and then you’d marry me.”

He was appalled, until he saw her laugh. “What are you trying to do, scare me to death?”

She laughed again.

“So you don’t expect me to marry you. Anything else I can do that’s not so permanent?”

“As a matter of fact, there is. I want you to help me train my horse Star. Everyone knows that you’re the best there is with horses.”

There was no real reason he couldn’t help her out, except that it seemed like a commitment, and he didn’t intend to tie himself anywhere, not now.

“I’d like to help. But I don’t know how long I’ll be here and—”

“I’ll take whatever time you can spare. Denke, Aaron. I’m wonderful glad.”

He started to say that his words hadn’t been a yes, but before he could, Sally grabbed his hand and every thought flew right out of his head.

And he knew in that instant that he was in trouble.