You can help if you want.”She nodded as her father left and watched as I finished skinning the cat. I used the mage mule to drag the body. I went to... hook up the new plow I had made down south. I let her stand on the shaft and talked her into driving the mage mule down to the lowest terrace. She was grinning as I jumped on behind her and turned to pull a lever to the side and then let the plow blade drop.I put my arms around her and looked over her shoulder, “keep glancing back at the edge of. With all his other commitments it would take about a month.The clover was filled in and the grasses were up. It was time for the beef and the deer to be shipped in.This is how I spent most days.4:00 get up, get dressed and watch the garden for critters until dawn.6:00 have breakfast, feed the dogs, take care of the chickens.7:00 wake up the kids and get them going.8:00 have a cup of coffee and a pastry. Read the paper online.10:00 watch the kids. Stop the end of the world. What a couple of. ‘Only for three months,’ I hastened to assure him—and in the same moment, realised I was reassuring myself. Because until then, Marco’s offer of a job hadn’t seemed entirely real. And even though I’d accepted his offer, I hadn’t even begun to comprehend the magnitude of my decision. Oh God, how could I have said ‘yes’ so quickly? Was I crazy? ‘Three months, Drew,’ I said again, my voice sounding peculiarly far away. ‘That’s probably all it’ll be. You see—’ ‘Oh no, cara, it’ll be longer than. We were driven to Alicia's brownstone and shewalked me in. "I'll miss you Bianca, we'll all miss you, come back anytime," she told me as she embraced me and kissed me. I took in her sweetscent and the feeling of her breasts against mine. We kissed again, thenshe pulled away and walked back to the car. She waved at me as I walked upto the doors of my mistresses brownstone and unlocked them.My heels clicked loudly on the hard floors as I walked inside. Not wantingto wake anyone, I took them off.