Squire's Quest (45 page)

He heard her breath catch, knew why.

"I love you, Cal. I probably always have, but didn't have the sense to admit it."

She turned to face him. "I wanted to hear those words once, but a long time ago I
realized something." Rising onto her elbow, she leaned to kiss him softly. "The words aren't
important. What you did--marry me, when what you really wanted was to go questing for
adventure--
that
was love."

THE END

Among her varied careers are a couple Judith B. Glad actually chose, rather than falling
into. With her children in school, she decided it was time for her to follow her own dreams, so
she went back to school and studied botany. After completing her M.S., she became a botanical
consultant, and spent the next twenty-odd years picking flowers for a living. Well, it was a little
more complicated than that, but she picked enough flowers to keep her happy.

Consulting is not always steady work, so one slow winter Judith decided to spend a little
time at her second career choice. Now she'd done a lot of writing as a consultant, but somehow
describing proposed mine sites and interpreting statistical data wasn't the kind of writing she
wanted to do. So she wrote a book. And another, and... Before she knew it, she was spending
more time writing than picking flowers.

Judith lives in Portland, Oregon, where her garden blooms all year 'round and the long,
rainy winters give her lots of time for writing. Visit her website (www.judithbglad.com) for
samples of her stories.

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