She smiled as Ella giggled and tried to reach for his face. "No love, not that. Sorry, she's used to long hair.." She sat down then, trusting Alex with her daughter.. "You know if I told you, back then, how you'd be handling my daughter you wouldn't have believed me."
"A drawback." She'd enjoyed horses, but not as much as he did. "What did you call him?" She wasn't able to call back the horse she figured he'd long for, and she'd always feel vaguely bad for it.