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    “Yea sure.”  He smiled.  The smile was like tonic to Molly.  His smile was hugely attractive.  There it was again.  That unfamiliar sensation.
     
    Shaking her head to clear those thoughts, “How do you like it?”  She asked him.
     
     
     
    “Black please, don’t want to make it too girly.”  He laughed.
     
    “Too girly?”  Molly had never heard coffee referred to anything to do with the sexes.
     
    “Sorry it’s a joke we used to have back home.  One of the guys there used to put cream and sugar in his coffee and one day someone asked him if he always drank his coffee girly.  I just thought it was funny.  Never heard it referred to anything but coffee, you know?”  He explained.
     
    Molly chuckled, “I  thought the same thing when you first said it to.  I haven’t heard it referred to anything but coffee in my life either.” 
                 
    “Well you not very old so I wouldn’t doubt that, you couldn’t be more than 18 years old.”  He came back with.
     
    Molly smiled then laughed.  t was pleasant to have a man who actually would compliment a woman.  William had never done that once in his life.  “Thanks, I’m 24 though.”  Her smile didn’t fade.  Joshua admired the look.  She looked even younger with that smile on her face.
     
    “So how long has your husband been out of commission?”  Joshua asked her.
     
    “Oh, just a few weeks now.”  Molly had to make it seem like very little time.
     
    “And you’ve been doing everything by yourself?”  He looked at her quizzically.
     
    “Yes, been trying to.  It’s been difficult.   I was hoping to run the ranch myself until he got better, however, I don’t think that's going to happen.”  She answered somewhat honestly.
     
    “Like I told you.  I may not have experience, but you can tell, I’m no weakling either so I think this will be work that I’m well suited for.  I’m more than willing to learn and well, we can work out any details later on, once you're ready.  I hope to pick things up quickly, in a couple of days.  That way you'll be able get back to the woman things.”  Joshua explained.
     
    Molly’s face bunched up a bit, on the woman things comment, though, she had to admit. Those were the things she did miss.  “Yeah I guess your right.  If it takes you that little time to learn, I can get right back into the swing of things or close to normal.” 
     
    Joshua grinned at her, “Good, I hope to make your life a whole lot easier to deal with.”
     
     

 
    4. Joshua's Story
                                After they finished coffee, they headed out to start the chores.  Molly not only explained but showed Joshua what needed to be done, and he was right.  Joshua did pick it up very quickly.  Not that any of the work was really hard to understand.  They worked side by side as if they had been doing this together for years.  The talk was free and pretty open in most cases.  Joshua told her a bit about his past work and the trip to Fort Davis.  His manner was pleasant and most of all, friendly.
     
    Molly listened to him tell his stories and she could hear the compassion in his voice.  The fact that he had lost his job didn’t seem to hold nearly as much weight, as the fact that many of his friends who had kids to feed, lost their jobs as well.  “If, I do a good job for you, some of the money I make, I’m going to send back to a few of my friends to help out.” 
     
    She had to wipe the tears from her eyes when he said that.  Looking at him, as big as he was, you would never have thought there was such an old softy inside.  Many times as they worked, she took a moment to survey him.  His muscles were rippling and so nice looking.  A few times she had almost been caught starring when he turned around to ask a question or tell her something.
     
    The feelings she had as she watched him, were completely