The Convenient Cowboy by Ann B. Harrison

Author:Ann B. Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781949707823
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2019-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Word has it that Ryan pressured his mother-in-law to change her will in his favor.”

Joy held the phone to her ear, her mouth open as Sadie relayed what she’d heard. “But that’s despicable. How can anyone get away with that kind of behavior?”

“That’s not going to happen here if I have anything to do with it. Emily backs up that behavior too. Remember she said he was the schoolyard bully? She’s not the only one saying that. The problem we have now is, do we have to prove it? I don’t like it. The will you have was legally executed at the time, and nobody came up with anything then, so I don’t really understand what his game is. But if that will is legit, and it looks like it is, we have a fight on our hands.”

Her stomach dropped. “I don’t know what to say. I have no idea what he has on me.”

“I know this is a shock to you and I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t let you have the facts.”

“I understand. I don’t know how to fix this, Sadie. Can he really take everything away from us?”

“I don’t know. The judge may even refuse to hear a case from us if it doesn’t have any merit. Mr. Mitchell contesting the will might well be an open and shut case. What we need is someone who actually saw him bullying Bradley’s grandmother. Someone with credence like a doctor or her pastor. Someone with standing in the community and not attached to you who can tell the judge how he pressured her to leave the ranch to him. Her own words would be perfect, but unless she left something in writing, I don’t know what our chances are yet.”

“I don’t know what to do.”

“I want you to think, Joy. Does Bradley have any old letters from his grandmother telling him she was leaving him the ranch? Anything you can get your hands on that shows it was always her intention to leave the ranch to Bradley will help. Birthday cards, Christmas cards. Anything that mentions her motivation to not leave the place to Ryan. To give you a chance of holding on to your ranch, we need to prove that this new will was coerced.”

“I’ll have a look, but I don’t recall seeing anything. I mean, Bradley was always talking about it in high school, how the ranch was going to be his because his grandmother wasn’t going to leave it to his father. He never actually said why though. Least not to me.”

“Did he keep a journal?”

“No. Nothing like that.” It would make things so much easier if he had, but Bradley had never been one to write down his thoughts unless it was something to do with the way he wanted to run the ranch. His ranching magazines were filled with notes. She hadn’t the heart to throw them away.

“Oh, well, we can only hope that someone can corroborate what Emily said.

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