Felipe was looking at the time on his watch when he heard Madeline say that to him.

He turned around to look at her in disbelief. “Eveline?”

Madeline rode her horse closer to him and smiled softly. “It’s decided, then. We’ll go back to F Country next week with Lily so that we can live a happy life with just the three of us.”

Felipe was obviously taken aback by Madeline’s answer.

She was agreeing to go back to F Country with him.

The three of them.

That statement went to the deepest part of