Authors Note: I delete the story well because. I had a whole other way I was going to write this, but it seemed to take a life of it's own, and I didn't really care for it, so I'm going to wrote it the way. I should have in the first place. I hope it's better.
The sun peaked just above the morning clouds. A light dew had fall over night, and glistened in the light. Down in the valley beautiful wild horse ran free. A few miles down a long dirt road. Was a very beautiful old cabin style house, but this house was not lived in. There was another home a few miles back in the woods that Lee lived in. The house up the road Lee had built for Amanda. A home she never got to live in.
After Amanda's death Lee just couldn't live in the house, but he couldn't tear it down either, so it was left to fall down. In the years since Amanda death. Lee life had changed. He was no longer the Lee that people who had once know. The Lee that chased after every women in the world. Amanda had changed him. No it was he that wanted to change for his Amanda.
He had never wanted anything until he found Amanda, he had it all. A loving wife, two step-son and mother-in-law what could a man ask for. But sadly that all changed that night nineteen years on a rain slick highway. A drunk driver crossed the medium hiting Amanda head on.
It's was Billy who had brought Lee the news that She had been killed. Lee remember that night like it was yesterday. She had told him that morning he was going to be a daddy. He couldn't believe it he was going to be daddy. That night they lay in bed in the after glow of their love making. Trying to come up with way's of telling their family the whole story. A little while later she said that she had to go home, but couldn't wait until tomorrow they would finally be together in their home, But sadly in just a few short hours later that dream was never realized.
After Amanda death Lee told Dotty and the boys the whole truth. About IFF, him and Amanda wedding, and the baby. They all where mad at him for never telling the truth about him and Amanda, It was Dotty who had been the first to forgive him. The boys took a little while longer, but in time they to came to forgive him. As time went on the boys grow up and moved away. Dotty had met a really nice man. Who she just a few short years later married and moved to California.
Amanda would have been proud of her boys. Jamie was now and doctor and lived in New York. He wasn't married, but he did have someone special in his life and Lee know that it won't be long before they heard wedding bells. Phillip was a lawyer just like Joe, who sadly had passed a few months after Amanda. Phillip was Married and had two small boy's, and one on the way. Lee had always thought that Amanda would have made an amazing grandmother.
As for Lee after her death things just never was the same. He no longer cared about the spy business his heart just wasn't in it. Just a few short months later Lee quit. Billy had tried to talk him out of it, but he know that Lee just didn't have the heart for it anymore. Lee had tried to move on, but no matter where he turned there seemed to be Amanda. He know that there had to be a way to move on. So he toke a trip to Florida.
On his second night in Florida. He had met a very beautiful women named Lisa.
It wasn't love at first sight, but he did find her very beautiful. Lee stayed for two months in Florida the whole time he spent with her. Sharing dinner, talking, laughing. Then one night as they walked down the beach arm in arm. They stop to look at the sunset. Lisa stood on her toes and kissed Lee. Who had respond to the kiss until he realized what was happening.
He had pulled away from her, and turned and walked away. Leaving a very hurt Lisa to wonder what had just happen. For three days he didn't see her. Then on the fourth day he found her and explain to her why he pulled away.
On that day Lee Stetson moved on with his life. He and Lisa where married six months later. Three years after that their daughter Hannah was born. The day Hannah was born had been the best day of lee's life, but his happiness had been cut short. Sadly Hannah had became sick and died.
His marriage to Lisa just started to fall a part. Neither know how to fix it. They did stay married hoping out hope that they could work things out. But sadly two years ago he came home to find Lisa gone. And note that said that she loved him, but she just couldn't be with him any longer.
Yes a lot had happen in the last nineteen years, some good and some bad, but throw it all Lee never gave up. He finish his morning coffee, and started to head to the barn when the phone rang. Lee headed in the house to answer it.