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Tilda puts her palm in mine. “Where are we going?”

I lead her away from the house. Toward the Lonely Peak State Park fence line.

“I was reminded today about the time I caught a couple trying to have sex in the park.”

“What?” Tilda laughs her question.

“Uh-huh.” We step off the driveway and keep walking.

“What happened?”

I lift a shoulder. “I found them as they were about to start stripping in the back of his truck.”

“And then…?”

I shrug. “Then I stood there until they left.”

“Seriously?”

I nod. “Then I blackmailed him for thirty thousand dollars to upgrade the public toilets.”

“Ethan!”

I grin.Good memories.

Chapter 133

Tilda

Ethan helpsme through the fence, and once I’m on the other side, I click my tongue at him. “Not very Good Boy of you.Illegally enteringpark property.”

He swats my ass.

I squeak but keep smiling.

Playful Ethan is maybe my favorite Ethan.

I purse my lips.

Or maybe it’s sexy Ethan.

Or Good Boy Ethan.

Or…swinging an axe at my cousinEthan.

A quack has us both turning back to the fence.

Quackers is waddling toward us from the other side.

Ethan whistles and points to the house.

Quackers snaps her beak, then turns around and waddles back.

Or… maybe it’s duck whisperer Ethan.

“Oh. Wow.”My steps slow as we come out of the woods into a large grassy patch.

I have to turn my head side to side to take in the view.

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