Emily walked behind the rope as the people cheered. He glanced over at the polo match that was occurring, but then turned her attention back to looking for Nolan. He told her to meet him there so he could apologize for how he had acted a week prior. She saw him at the same moment that he spotted her, and they walked toward each other.

"Emily, you were right. It's not my place to tell you what to do and who you can get to know."

"Thank you, Nolan. Are you going to tell me why you warned me off of the Graysons in the first place?"

"Let's just say that they had a history with you dearly departed father. But never mind that now. I have someone you would like to see. I believe you knew him as 'Uncle Bill'" The two of them walked over to a man who seemed to be fiddling with a pair of dice. Emily recognized him right away as her father's best friend. But she knew that she could not call him her uncle. She was Emily Thorne now and as Emily, Bill Harman was not her uncle. Standing with Bill was Victoria and Conrad Grayson.

Conrad was the first to see the two blondes approach the trio. "Welcome Mr. Ross, Ms. Thorne. I didn't know you two knew each other."

"Nolan was a friend of my father's," Emily responded. "It's good to see you again Mr. and Mrs. Grayson."

"Please, call me Conrad."

"Only if you call me Emily."

"Emily," Victoria began, "This is Bill Harman. Bill, this is our new neighbor, Emily Thorne."

"Tell me Ms. Thorne, how does a young person like yourself keep her money safe? If you are looking for a company to invest in, I'll let you know that you will find no better place than my firm."

"I actually to prefer to keep my money safe with me. There is no one else I trust more than myself to make sure that my money is safe."

"Well if you change your mind here's my card." Emily took the card that he offered her and placed it in the clutch she carried that matched her blue dress.

"Bill, leave the poor girl alone," Victoria chastised.

Emily glanced around while Bill tried to convince Nolan to invest is money into the older man's company. She noticed a young girl holding the leash of a dog. After a moment, Emily recognized the girl as Charlotte Grayson and the dog as Sammy. "If you'll excuse me." Nolan gave her a nod of acknowledgement while the other smiled politely at her as she made her way to the teenager. "Charlotte, hi!"

"Hey Emily! Have you met Sammy?"

Emily leaned over to scratch the old boy's head. "I have and it was love at first sight." Emily left out the part that Sammy used to be hers, so she would of course love the dog. "How are you?"

"Good. Daniel's playing, but he wanted to bring him, so of course I'm watching after him. I don't mind. It keeps me away from my parents and their rich friends. And my ex," she said she with a nod to a dark-haired boy who was eyeing her.

"Daniel's playing?" Emily stood up and looked toward the match taking place. That was when she heard his parents cheering for him. She searched through the moving ponies and found him a few seconds later. Underneath his helmet, she could see his handsome face with determination written all over it as he swung the mallet, hit the ball, but sent it in the wrong direction.

Charlotte watched as Emily looked towards her brother. With a satisfied smile, she came up with a plan to try to get Emily and Daniel together. She saw them yesterday together and she could immediately see the sparks between them. She wanted to see her brother happy after what happened last summer, and she had a feeling that Emily was going to be the woman to do that.

Turning back to Charlotte, Emily said. "Do your parents not like Sammy?"

"They tolerate his existence. Danny brought him home when he was little. They had no idea where he found him, and he gave them no explanation. They were gonna tell him to take Sammy back to where he found him, but my Grandpa Grayson was here and convinced them to let him keep it."

Emily thought back to when she first met Daniel when they were kids. He knew her and her father, but she had only known him as Daniel. They would always play on the beach by her house. She never put it together that he must have lived in the house next door. "Well I can't give you advice about your parents, but I can give you advice on your ex, if you would like it. Or you can tell me to mind my own business," she said with a light laugh.

"Oh, please do. He wants to get back together, but he is so entitled and I just can't be with someone like that. There's also the fact that I met someone else. Who is the complete opposite of my ex."

"I know that it may be hard to, but try not to go places where you know you know your old boyfriend will be. Instead spend time with the new boy you are interested in. Get to know him better. Also, don't continue to text him. If you communicate with him, even by telling him to go away, you are giving him hope by allowing him a small part in your life."

"I'll think on that. Thank you."

"Please, don't mention it."

"To repay you, I will inform you that the players are taking a break and I'm sure that my brother would love to know that you are here."

"I think I will take you up on that thank you. It's nice to see and Sammy again, Charlotte."

Emily made her way to where the players were hydrating, as were their ponies. "Come on girl, what's wrong today?" Emily smiled as she heard Daniel speak softly to his pony.

"You know, it's really not fair to blame everything on this poor girl," she said as she walked towards him.

He looked up from his bottle of water and saw her as soon as she stepped in front of him. Embarrassment was clear all over his face. "I was hoping that you wouldn't be here to see that."

"Well, my friend, Nolan, happened to invite me here today and out of luck, I noticed that you were playing. And by luck, I mean I saw Charlotte and she mentioned that you were playing." They both laughed as she stroked the large animal's mane. "She's beautiful. I was the captain of my equestrian in college."

"Would you like to go sometime?"

"Riding?"

"Sure, riding or dinner."

Emily blushed and looked at the pony as she stroked it's face. "Well that depends, doesn't it?"

"On what?" HE knew he should be nervous about her answer, but he could not help but smile at her.

"On if you win."

"And if I don't?" He jumped back on the animal and looked down at her, waiting for her answer.

"We'll just have to see, won't we?" He shook his head and chuckled.

The woman sat in her chair and watched as the young blonde woman walked at Daniel's side while he rode on the horse. She didn't trust the woman, despite that fact that the rest of her family seemed to do so. A man sat in the empty chair beside her. "I have the files you asked for."

"Thank you, Frank."

The woman opened the file and the first thing that she saw was a picture of Emily Thorne. Satisfied, she closed the file, wanting to read it while she was alone. "May I ask why you are interested in Emily Thorne?"

The woman looked toward Frank with a serious expression. "Because she is interested in my son." With the final word said, Victoria looked back out at the field. Daniel was shooting the winning shot and Emily was cheering alongside Charlotte and Conrad. She didn't know Emily had sought out her son, but she knew she was definitely going to find out.