Chapter 80: Creature in the Woods

 Delaney and Vincent spent the next week or so behaving as newlyweds would. They happily lived in their little bubble, protected from the world but eventually, the world still found them.

 "Are you sure you have to go?" Delaney asked her husband again as she watched him sift through papers on the desk in his study.

   "I do Love," he sighed, "I need to go see to the orchards and the other properties. Miles's lands themselves are still technically partially mine. I have to go."

   "And I can't go with you?"

   Looking up at her he smiled, "Not on this trip but maybe in the fall. I want you to see everything but some of this is grueling work."

   Delaney crossed her arms over her chest, sitting in one of the chairs across from the desk, "And what should I do while you're gone?"

   "Well, that's the fun of it. It's all up to you. Talk to Ms. Crouch. She may have some ideas."