CHAPTER 203

“How’s Meridian?”

“The same.”

“What do you need done this morning?” Edgard blasted Trevor with a warning look.

“And don’t say nothin’. It’d be an insult to Chassie because I know she works her ass off before noon.”

What the hell? Ed was being protective of his wife? “I already fed the cattle.”

Edgard lifted a brow. “This early?”

“Yeah. I couldn’t sleep.”

“Chassie didn’t call?”

Trevor shook his head. “Thought I’d get all my shit done early so we’d have time to talk when she comes home.”

“Sounds like a plan. Where were you off to?”

To pine over another thing I can’t have in my life.

Jesus. That sounded pathetic. Trevor twisted a version of the truth. “Our neighbor to the south is thinkin’ about sellin’ his place. He’s given us first shot at it. Still hush-hush.”

“I take it there are other folks who’d want that piece of land?”

“A few. Kind of an Old West code, if you like your neighbors, you offer it to them first. But it ain’t like we’d get it cut rate. Gus’s usin’ the money to live off