Molly's Plan “My husband William died about a year ago. I’ve been running everything by myself. I can’t do it anymore, cattle sales are coming up soon, and none of the men in this area are going to buy from me. The fact that I’ve turned down several of them already for marriage has made me something of a marked woman already. So I needed someone to come and help me out, but I don’t want to get married, I can’t, I didn’t love William, he didn’t love me, we only had sex once, and that’s not what I want from the next man I find.” She poured out everything. “I hope your not mad at me. I only needed a ranch hand. I figured if someday I find love, I will find it but I won’t settle for one of these losers around here. They are all older than dirt and truthfully, I had one loveless marriage. I want something more, like you find in the books.” By the time she finished she was looking down, afraid to look into his face after hearing the truth.
