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It starts with pancakes and ends with silence.

Colt wakes to the kind of morning that feels like hope. Ruth is humming again. Mason’s smiling without fear. The farm breathes easy for the first time in days.

But peace doesn’t last long.

A knock at the door. A complaint from the county. A threat that cuts deeper than it should.

And just like that, Colt’s world starts slipping.

In this chapter:

• A soft morning turns sharp

• A letter threatens everything they’ve built

• Mason is pushed too far

• One door closes quietly. Maybe for good.

Ruth knows what’s at stake.
She doesn’t yell. She doesn’t argue.
She sends Colt to the fence line—with breakfast, a note, and the quiet kind of love that doesn’t let go without trying.

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