His Ward by Sam Crescent

Author:Sam Crescent [Crescent, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2018-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

It had been a long time since Luca had taken a trip out to all parts of the ranch. He hired men to come in and keep the fences active. Without any cattle he didn’t have to worry about poachers on his land.

“What are you going to do with all this?” she asked.

“I don’t know.”

He didn’t have any ideas. The land gave him comfort, the fences offering him the quiet, solitary life.

“Are you hiding?” she asked.

“I’m not hiding.”

“You are.” She looked out the window.

He used his four-by-four to get them as far from the ranch as possible. The land was green but not overgrown. Again, he had someone come out to mow the lawns.

“I’m not going to argue with you about this,” he said. Tapping the steering wheel, he glanced back at her.

She’d changed into a pair of jeans and long shirt. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail.

“How is your ass?” he asked.

“Still where I last saw it,” she said, turning toward him.

He chuckled.

“It’s fine. A little sore, but I shouldn’t have run upstairs. Don’t worry, I’ll be a good little girl.”

“You’re dangerous.”

“No, I’m not. What made you buy this place?” she asked.

“I needed somewhere that was out of the way, and this was the only place that was available at the time. Also, it was going real cheap because the guy that lived here before had run it into the ground.”

“So, you got it for a good price?”

He sighed. “I could have got it for a good price. He put it on for a ridiculously low price. I’m fair, and I offered him the correct market value for it.”

She laughed. “So the big, bad businessman couldn’t even steal from a desperate man.”

“Not all businessmen are bad people.”

“Not all of them, but most are. The most I’ve seen are only after what they can get.”

He wondered if she talked about Ryan, about her mother. From what he remembered of Ryan, he’d not been a bad guy, but her memories were not the same.

“Are you talking about your parents?”

“Do you really want to know?”

“Yes.”

“Yeah, I was. Everything was always money to them. What deal would make them more and I get it. Money is all most people think about. Those that don’t have it want it, and those that do want to try and stop others from having it.”

“It’s not all bad.”

“It’s not all good either. I don’t even know how you can defend them after everything you’ve been through. You were cast out by the very people you helped make money. Don’t you feel angry? Hurt? Anything?”

“I did.”

“You don’t anymore?” she asked.

“It … I don’t know how to answer that.”

“Why not answer it with the truth? If you could go back, would you have gotten into that fight that scarred your face? I mean, why didn’t you press any charges? The guy shoved you through a window. He changed your entire world for the rest of your life, and for what? Sleeping with his wife.”

“I don’t want to talk about this.

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