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I handed her the wrong one, apparently, because she waved it away and pointed to the other one.

“That’s my spoon.”

My brows rose.

What was with this girl and spoons?

“What makes it your spoon?” I asked, my lips curving up at the edges.

“It’s the only one of its kind,” she said as she showed me. “See all the smooth edges? The mouth isn’t too big? It’s perfect for my mouth, and my mouth only. You can use one of those big-mouth spoons.”

“I have something else that would be perfect for your mouth…”

Her face flamed.

I handed her the bowl of oats, granola, and yogurt.

“Your yogurt.” I raised a brow at her. “What were you thinking?”

Her cheeks reddened as she took her bowl and headed for the barstools.

She took a large bite and glared.

My lips twitched as I joined her. “Had no clue you were such a health nut.”

“I’m trying to turn over a new leaf,” she muttered around another bite. “I went to the doctor in Bozeman, and they recommended that I eat more fruits and veggies when I told them how many I normally ate.”

“And how much do you normally eat?”

She grinned. “Zero.”

I chuckled as I ate, finishing off my bowl in the time that it took her to eat half of hers.

I was just rinsing my bowl in the sink when a ding sounded from her television in the corner.

The one that I noticed had a view of every angle of her house as well as the length of her driveway and her gate.

She walked over to examine it.

“You expecting a friend?”

I walked over to look and frowned. “No.”

A sheriff’s department cruiser was at her gate.

“How did you get through my gate?”

“You have the code stored with us, remember?”

She’d given it to me to store “in case” anything ever happened to her, and I needed to get in. For any reason.

We both knew that she was talking about “if anything ever happened to her because of her brother.” And I was beginning to think, more and more, that she might not be exaggerating. After hearing her explain it at the jail, then hearing what Milo had to say…

She flushed. “Oh, yeah.”

I hadn’t forgotten the code.

Probably never would.