When Abby came walking toward him, Wyatt couldn’t hide the giant grin threatening to split his face. When the judge had started talking about having him do his community service in Boise, his stomach had dropped to the floor. They’d been lucky today to have clear roads the whole way through. More than a few people died on the trip from Sawyer to Boise because of black ice, avalanches, or treacherous conditions that sent them spinning off the side of the road. Many people in Long Valley owned two or three chest freezers so they could stock up on food to minimize the needed trips to Boise during the winter. He would’ve hated having to make the trip every week for weeks on end.

But now…

Abby grinned back at him, obviously just as happy with the judge’s ruling as he wa...

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