My Stepmother Sold the Farm, So I Married the Man Who Left novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: The Belgian Team
The sale barn smelled of hay, diesel and nervous animals, and it was full.
Eighty people sat on the plank bleachers around the ring, and I knew every one of them.
My father had sold his calves in this barn for forty years.
They had come, I understood, to see what Delores would do with his team.
Nels and I took seats in the third row.
Hilda sat on the other side of me with her purse in her lap, glaring at the ring.
Behind us, one by one, the men from the hay field filed onto the bleachers and sat down in a block.
Nobody said anything, and I loved them for it.
The auctioneer climbed into his box and tapped the microphone.
"Folks," he said. "Next up, a matched team of Belgian geldings, sorrel, eleven years old, broke to harness and as gentle as a church pew. Property of the Rostad estate."
The gate opened.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of My Stepmother Sold the Farm, So I Married the Man Who Left are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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