The idea of Elias Boone handling a bank visit on his own had always struck them both as mildly absurd — and she’d have been the first to say so, not unkindly, just truthfully, the way she said everything that mattered.
The accounts, the paperwork, the phone calls with people who used words like liquidity and portfolio as casually as Elias used words like topsoil and rainfall. She had a mind for it, sharp and organized, and Elias had trusted her completely with every number that didn’t relate to seed costs or acreage.