Noble Pursuit (The New American Royals Book 2) by Eva Charles

Author:Eva Charles [Charles, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quarry Road Publishing
Published: 2016-05-31T18:30:00+00:00

They sat on the rocks, watching the sailboats bob in the distance, and finished lunch. While he gazed out across the ocean, it occurred to him that she might be supporting her family, and he wanted to kick himself for not thinking of that sooner.

“Do you send your parents money, is that why you don’t spend any on yourself?”

She froze.

He rested one hand on her thigh and used the other to lift her chin toward him. “I’m on your side, no judgments here. I would do the same thing if I needed to. My family’s everything to me.”

She picked at the imaginary lint on her jeans, not saying a word.

“Alexa? Please talk to me.”

“My father entered into a bad contract with a large grain supplier with a reputation for being unscrupulous. For the last few years they’ve been buying up farmland all over Minnesota, putting small- to medium-sized farms, like my family’s, out of business. He should never have signed the contract. It was so one-sided even a first year law student would’ve known better.”

“Did he have a lawyer?”

“That’s the strangest part. Yes. And I can’t imagine he would have gone against his lawyer’s advice and signed that contract.”

“Maybe when he read it he didn’t see it as a bad deal.”

“He never read it.”

“How do you know?”

“He has severe dyslexia. I’ve seen the contract, and there’s no way he could have made heads or tails of it.”

“If he has dyslexia, and couldn’t read the contract, can’t he get out of it?”

“It’s not that simple. He’s never admitted to the dyslexia. He compensates, pretends it’s his failing eyesight, but he’s dyslexic. Owen, too.”

She sighed heavily. “I don’t send money to them. I’ve worked out a payment plan with the company to pay off the debt. But the terms are tough because they don’t really want the money. They want the land.”

“What are the payments like?”

“About eight thousand dollars a month.”

“Alexa,” he breathed. “You need help with this. That’s got to be your entire salary.”

“I know. I plan on getting a second job, but as long as I’m shadowing you, it’s impossible. I can’t save any money for Owen’s education until I get out from under this mess. The payments will end in about three years, but I need to start saving before then.”

“What does Owen need?”

“He needs a tutor and a special school. If he has those things, he can have the same opportunities as any other child. Right now he hardly goes to school at all. He hates it. My father remembers the pain of school too, of feeling like you’re dumb even when you’re not, so they let Owen stay home. And even if he went to school, with all the budget cuts, they can’t give him the services he needs to succeed.”

“There’s got to be a way to help him.”

“There is. I can help him. I can make sure he has everything he needs. I can make sure he doesn’t end up like my dad, hiding, isolated, and ashamed.

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