Epilogue:
Three days later...
The scenery whizzed by as they soon hit Arlington again, home at last. Jessie was grinning , anticipating getting home finally and was surprised when Sands didn't make the familiar turn that would take them to the townhouse. She looked at him curiously. They'd been on the road for almost 4 days, driving back from Texas and she couldn't think of anyplace else they needed to go. Sands glanced at her as he drove and grinned.
Thirty minutes later, he made a turn onto a narrow, dirt road and drove another mile until they came upon a ranch style house. Jessie's eyes widened in surprise..
"Shel, where are we?" she asked.
"Home, sweet thing..." He grinned and winked at her.
"Home?!" she exclaimed.
"Yep, home..I found this place some weeks ago and started the paperwork on it the day that we found out about your dad and I was going to tell you, but after things turned out the way they did, I decided to leave it as a surprise for when we came back home. The other day when you came in and caught me on the phone, well, I had just finalized everything two days earlier and was talking to the movers on the phone. Everything in the townhouse has already been moved here and is set up. C'mon, I'll show you around..." He grinned.
They all followed him inside the house, Millie carrying a sleeping Dakota and Bo following at their heels. He showed them the huge eat in kitchen,living room ,den, Dakota's room, their room with bathroom and last but not least, Millie's room with its own bathroom, and an extra bedroom. Jessie stared at it all wide eyed and disbelieving. Her husband had been full of a lot of surprises in the last week.
"It's beautiful...but I'm just so surprised..."She answered, wiping tears from her eyes.
"Well, this isn't all, darlin'...come on..." He coaxed.
They followed him back outside and Jessie wondered what else there could possibly be. Then, her eyes widened again and her mouth fell open in surprise. There was a barn and a ring and a couple enclosed paddocks and in one of them, four of the prettiest mustangs she'd ever seen were grazing.
"Oh..my god...Shel..." She choked out...
"Well, I knew Blaze was gone and how much you'd loved her, so I adopted these four mustangs from the mustang rescue...now you have four.." He grinned.
Jessie said nothing, she just threw her arms around him and kissed him for all she was worth, then moved towards the fence where one of the horses had walked up, knickering a curious greeting. Sands took the baby from Millie and walked up beside her and and put an arm around her shoulder. It didn't get better than this.
The End