Expecting a Lone Star Heir by Sara Orwig

Author:Sara Orwig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Six

Mike turned to her, placing his palm against her cheek. “What’s worrying you, Vivian? Is it Thane?”

“Thane?” she asked in surprise. “Not at all. Thane’s gone, Mike, and he’s never coming back to me. I keep saying it—he would want me to go on with my life. I know that for certain.”

“You’re right about that,” Mike said, caressing her cheek and then playing with a long lock of her hair. “He would want you to, just as you would want him to if something had happened to you. So what is it?”

“I just don’t understand your attitude about my inheritance.”

There was a long moment of silence.

“If I didn’t have that kind of income and inheritance, you would date me after tonight, wouldn’t you?” she asked.

“I probably would, but there’s no way to think about you without your inheritance because it exists and it isn’t going away. I can’t deal with that, Vivian. Maybe it was because of growing up without much, but there’s no way I can go out with a woman who has inherited millions from her husband and is heir to a man worth billions. I was raised to feel that a man who relies on a woman for money isn’t really a man. Before my aunt divorced my uncle, she offered to give dad money to pay when my youngest brother was born. I can still remember that fight and my dad wouldn’t take a penny. It might not have been smart, but that’s just the way I am.”

She sat up and pulled the sheet up beneath her arms. “I have never known anyone who objected to money.”

“I don’t object to money. I’d be happy to have a bunch, but not from the woman I love. I’d feel like a kept man. I’d feel like I couldn’t be myself, argue about anything. You’ll never understand, because you were born into that and you’ve lived with it all your life. It’s your family and your family money. It has belonged to you since the day you were born.” He tunneled his fingers through his hair and blew out a breath. “You may not be able to understand how I feel but my feelings are real. My dad had strong feelings about it and taught his sons that the man should pay, the man should have the money. Also, his brother married a wealthy woman, and they fought over everything and she was snippy when she would come to our house. She would leave my mom in tears about what a dump we lived in. It was home and we liked it. They finally divorced, but she caused some hard feelings and bad times. As a kid there were times I’ve gone hungry rather than have some woman who wasn’t related, buy my dinner. The year dad died was bad and we did go to bed hungry. I had a teacher who would try to buy my lunch and I just couldn’t let her do it. That’s just how I was brought up.

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