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Grace: I ended things with the portly farmer.

Mona: I don’t know what that means. Have you been secretly dating Farmer Mac?

Grace: Whoops. Meant to send that to Rachel.

Mona: How’d Rachel know about you and Farmer Mac?

Grace: She doesn’t. I was talking about my story... and maybe kinda sorta talking about Luke.

Mona: He’s a farmer? I thought he owned a construction company.

Grace: He does. Just ignore everything I’m saying.

Mona: I can’t now. You ended things with Luke? I thought you said you two weren’t in a relationship.

Grace: We weren’t, technically speaking.

Mona: So what did you technically end?

Grace: The friendly chats we occasionally had that hinted at the possibility of a potential future relationship if we ever decided to make a commitment.

Mona: You heartbreaker. Hope he took it well.

Grace: Annoyingly well. Probably because all he wanted to talk about was how he met Noah the other day and what a likable guy he was.

Mona: Portly farmers are the worst.

Grace: Complete backstabbers.

Mona: So what are you going to do now?

Grace: Focus on my story. I still haven’t worked out a happily-ever-after for my heroine. If I don’t come up with something good in the next couple hours, she may just have to ride off into the sunset alone.

Mona: We can’t have that .

Grace: Really? I’d think you’d be all for that.

Mona: Maybe if this was my story. But I happen to believe the heroine in your story deserves a much happier ending.