A couple of weeks later, Emily had quite forgotten about her gift request, and she was surprised when Byron reminded her.

“Let’s go look for that goat, shall we?” he said, just as they were getting into the car to go on what Emily thought was just a day trip with maybe some hiking in the mountains.

“Are you serious?” she asked.

“I’m very serious. It’s my gift to you.”

“An actual goat?”

“Maybe…” He ...