Giving Tilly Some Fresh Excitement
The house was really quiet since my daughter went off to college a couple months ago. My wife died in an accident when our daughter was only a toddler, so I had raised her on my own all these years. We got a pretty nice settlement from the accident and bought a little ranch in the country. On the back 10 acres, I kept a couple of horses for the occasional trail ride but mostly because my daughter loved taking care of them. Right across the fence was a neighbor’s house, which was accessible from the next road over. In this house lived a pretty girl named Tilly. Tilly also loved horses but didn’t have any of her own, so it wasn’t unusual for her to wander over whenever she saw my daughter out working …