The Beauty of Love (American Wilderness Series Romance Book 6) by Dorothy Wiley

Author:Dorothy Wiley [Wiley, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

Remington Forbes could never remember being more angry. “That bloody bastard is blackmailing me!” he shouted and clenched his fists.

George Abernathy replied smoothly, “It would be blackmail if they were extorting money or something of value from you. They simply want you to leave Captain Wyllie and Catherine alone.”

“She’s my daughter, why should I leave her alone?” he barked.

“If you hadn’t threatened Wyllie’s life, we might be able to do something about this. But you did and they now have proof. Tudor also implied you had something to do with Adams’ death on the Wilderness Trail.”

He started to respond but Abernathy stopped him.

“Don’t say anything. I don’t want to know,” he said. “Face it Remington, this is over.”

“It’s never over.”

“It better be,” Abernathy warned, “or your reputation in Boston will be ruined beyond repair. If this got out, not only would your status be lost, Alexa would never forgive you.”

“You need to find a way around this. That’s what I pay you for damn it!”

“What way? There’s nothing either one of us can do. You sent three men to Kentucky to strong arm Wyllie and it didn’t work. You even sought to have him killed and that didn’t work. And here in Boston, you tried to buy him off and that didn’t work. Face it, you’re not getting Catherine’s land in Kentucky or Wyllie’s mountain.”

Forbes crossed his arms in front of him and gnashed his teeth. He wasn’t going to accept defeat.

“You’re a smart man, Remington. Find another way to make money. A legitimate legal way, for heaven’s sake. You barely survived this fiasco with your reputation intact. You might not be as lucky the next time.”

“I’ll forget about the land in Kentucky, but not that mountain. It’s the only way I can get out from under this crushing debt without selling off most of my businesses.”

“There must be other mountains you can buy.”

“There are, but not with the concentration of gold and potential profit to be found in Wyllie’s mountain. I want that gold mine, George,” he said, making his voice firm, final.

Abernathy sighed loudly.

“So we have to give up on the annulment,” Forbes said, “or risk blackmail.”

“I’m afraid Tudor figured out my ploy anyway. We could never prove Catherine couldn’t think for herself. You saw her. She’s too strong, too happy, and obviously loves her husband. If she’d come back from Kentucky confused, meek, and unsure if she’d done the right thing by marrying Wyllie, we might stand a chance of convincing a judge. But she’s not the docile pampered young lady who left here. She’s far stronger and sure of herself.”

Forbes couldn’t deny the truth of Abernathy’s words. “I noticed the same thing myself. But her mother and I still think Wyllie married Catherine for her wealth. And Alexa wants her daughter back. My wife can be terribly stiff-necked. She has a will of iron when it comes to Catherine.”

“You have to make Alexa understand. She can no longer coddle her daughter here in her nest. Catherine is a grown woman with a family of her own.

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