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“But if you’d had all the designer clothes and the fancy cars, you would have. Or I thought you might. I couldn’t take that chance. So I made a choice for you, and maybe I shouldn’t have, but I did.”
Her eyes drift open and she spears me with those blue orbs. “Not much of an apology.”
I shrug. “It wasn’t supposed to be.”
“What did Reginald want though? Why try to convince me that I had so much?”
“Because he wanted what was left. His plan was to get you to sign over control to him, so he could investigate. And then he was going to use your money to set himself back up. Your father isn’t a bad man, Ruby, not really. He just doesn’t think about anyone but himself.”
“And the woman?”
I shrug. “No idea. She was pretending to be a lawyer. Perhaps she even is a lawyer. It doesn’t matter, they’re both gone. And I made it clear to Reginald that he isn’t welcome back here until he can learn to behave himself.”
She smiles and squeezes my hand. “For what it’s worth, this is a better life than I ever could have had with that money.”
“That’s what I thought, baby. But now you know that you have it…”
“What?”
I grin, lifting her hand and kissing her knuckles. “The tractor really needs a new tow hitch.”
CHAPTER11
Ruby
Six years later
It’ssix years and four babies later and I can still make my husband hard with barely a wink.
He’s hornier than ever. He says all those years of waiting made him more ravenous.
I love him and our simple life more than ever although, with four kiddos running around, it’s far from quiet.
He still treats me like his little girl and his filthy slut and his sweet little cow and I love being all of them for my big Uncle.
Daddy.
The lines are blurry but that’s sort of how we roll.
There was a huge ruckus in down when we applied for our marriage license. Seems not everyone is as open-minded as you would think in small town rural Indiana.
Shocker.
It’s ten o’clock and Eli just came in down stairs after helping one of our heifers have a calf. We never sell our livestock, they are family. We sell our dairy but our herd has grown since we never take any of them to market. I just can’t.
I mean, Eli wouldn’t send me to market if I quit producing milk, so I said we should afford the same civility to our cows.
Eli rarely refuses me anything unless it’s dangerous or not in my best interest.
He’s still sort of bossy, but secretly, I know who’s in charge, I just don’t tell him because what we have works and when something works, you don’t fix it.
I did get my degree in modern dance of all things. It was sort of a goal to get my diploma but there was nothing I really wanted to do but run the farm with my husband and raise a family and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Eli loves to see me dance and I’m not good, but I love how it makes me feel. We kept the original farm and added on and remodeled the house but kept the flavor and spirit of it intact. Marcy and David didn’t make it. Another shocker. But she’s a nurse and shares custody of little Benjamin with David and he’s doing okay as a father.
Eli has taken him out behind the barn a few times for some man to man talks and that always seems to straight him up. At least for a while.
My dad has settled back in to doing business in New York. That’s where he wants to be and our relationship is solid but not overly close. He visits a few times a year and dotes on the grandbabies in his own way. Mostly with gifts and money because his time is still devoted mostly to chasing his dreams.
