The Retired Sheriff Lived Alone for Five Years… Until a Widow Opened a Bakery Next Door.

ago. He’s afraid of losing me, too.”

“That’s a reasonable fear,” Walter said. “What he’s doing with it is less reasonable.”

She looked at him. He looked at her.

“I know,” she said. “I’m working on it.”

He put his hat on. “Take your time. I’m not going anywhere.”

She looked at him for a moment, at the gray hair and the lines around the eyes and the man who continue reading …