Forget Me Not, Baby by Amy Lillard

Author:Amy Lillard [Lillard, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: clean romance, cowboy romance, western romance, romantic comedy, sweet romance, Texas romance, Christian romance, inspirational romance
Publisher: A Squared Books
Published: 2022-07-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Waite did his best to not worry as the morning progressed, but it was hard going.

Winston knew it as well. Waite could feel the old man’s eyes on him as they worked. They were clearing out a gully that had over the years become clogged with trees, limbs, leaves, and other natural debris. It was back-breaking work, and it should have kept his mind off Sydney and Lacy and how the two of them were getting on today, but he worried all the same.

Waite stopped hacking off the branches of the fallen tree and wiped at his brow. It was almost time to break for lunch. And he needed it. He needed the break. He needed the food; he needed the rest. He wasn’t as young as he used to be. All those months in Mexico, drowning at the bottom of a bottle had taken their toll on him. But that was over now. Still, there were days that he imagined he could smell the tequila sweating out of his pores. It wasn’t, but it felt that way all the same. But the truth was, without Lacy, he would be there still. She was his second chance. She was his salvation. Without her none of this would have been possible. None of this would have happened, and he knew it. Thanked God for it every day.

In as much as he talked to God these days. But he was getting there. Baby steps to his own forgiveness. Right now it was all about Lacy. And the woman he had left her with.

“They’re fine,” Winston said as if reading his thoughts.

Waite nodded and started in on the tree once more; this time with a chain saw. He finished chopping and looked down at the logs of wood he’d made. “We can use this for firewood.”

“We have more than enough already.”

“We can sell it then.” That was something they had agreed upon, selling everything they could in order to make ends meet. This was a resurging business, and he was planning on being in on the first wave. But he wanted to be smart. Not invest new, fresh money until the ranch was rolling the way he thought it should be.

Ostrich ranching had experienced a crazy boom in the late eighties-early nineties when anti-apartheid laws went into effect and sanctions were leveraged against South Africa. But the boom was short-lived and the industry fell to ruin, most of that due to lack of knowledge and information about the strange birds that had captured everyone’s attention. Now it was budding again, in the rise in demand for organic meats and arthritis creams and the many other products that ostriches provided.

His plan was simple—keep it simple. Keep it small. Keep it a family operation for the sake of his family. It was for Lacy. All this was for Lacy. And he couldn’t let anything encroach on the future he had planned for her.

Not even the woman who held its success in the palm of her hand.

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