“Really ought to go to a hospital,” Horace grumbled, but he seemed resigned to the situation.“Not an option right now. Okay, so, Billy, lay her down in the back of the squad,” Office Alexander said.Billy took me to the trooper car and laid me down in the back. The cage between me and the front of
-Caleb-I was sleeping when he came in. It was a good thing, too, because if I’d been awake, I would have hit my call button.Or tried to strangle him with the cordAs it was, Masterson’s voice had my eyes flying wide open the moment he began to speak. “Hello, Caleb.”I looked up at him and felt aro
I nodded. “That’s me.”“She said I should come check on you. Good thing I did. Seems you can’t stay here,” he sighed. “I’m just trying to think if I should check you out AMA or if I should just steal you out of here and let them all try to figure out what happened.”“You did say the cameras were off
The Attorney General gaped at us. “An attempt… court… what?!”“Oh. We’ve got Jacey Collins, too. Don’t try to find them. You’ll be sorely disappointed,” Officer Alexander informed her.Her eyes widened. “You have… I don’t… but… deposition!”“There won’t be any more of that, either. They each gave on
-Jacey-As the months passed between Caleb’s and my rescues and the trial, it was easy to fall into a new routine. A quiet, easy routine. As we healed under Horace’s watchful eyes, we started being able to help Billy out more. He taught Caleb and me how to milk cows and collect eggs. Then, when we w
“Make another pound of it, Caleb. Horace is going to hog it all,” Billy chuckled.“You’d better believe it,” the vet replied.I got more plates and silverware out. While Caleb took care of the eggs and bacon, I poured orange juice and coffee for the newcomers then went to make more toast after setti
My smile wavered. “But I don’t even know what I’d like to be.”“It’s still a shame not having the full college experience,” Horace said. “Frankly, it’s not fair.”“It’s not,” Caleb agreed. He rubbed my back. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t still have a full, happy life.”‘I love you,’ I mouthed to h
-Caleb-Two weeks passed faster than I expected. Faster than I wanted, for sure. Jacey and I spent days working hard on the farm, though I left middays to help Horace at his vet clinic.“You’ve gotten some more muscles,” Jacey observed one evening when she and I were making dinner in the kitchen.Th
“So, I think you’ve been doing some snooping,” Ike said, leaning in the doorway.My eyes snapped upward, and I was sure I wasn’t hiding the hatred in them very well. “What the hell is all this?”“Your inheritance. You know, this makes it easier. Your grandfather and I were trying to figure out how t
I dropped the headphones and was about to go striding into the office to break up their nefarious little clique when I looked at Dawn’s screen. She’d left it unlocked.There was a folder open I’d never seen on the server before.I glanced over the monitor to make sure Dawn wasn’t on her way back the
-Will-I sat behind my grandfather’s desk, bored again. After private schools, Yale, and Harvard Business School, I was bored out of my mind. I’d followed my expected trajectory. I’d done everything expected of me.Only once did I ever step a toe out of line. Well, almost. I suggested, at one of my
-Jacey-“Mom? Where did Uncle Billy put the Fruity Pebbles?” McKenzie asked.She’d been home from her first year of college a week and had already settled right in like she owned the place. Billy had taken to hiding the Fruity Pebbles they both liked, one, because he thought it was hilarious, and tw
Shower. SHOWER!!! I stopped her jerking me off and helped her into the tub then followed her in and closed the floral curtain.Jacey went immediately for the soap, lathering up her hands and then starting to scrub me.“You’re trying to kill me, aren’t you,” I groaned when she washed my rigid cock.“
I should have been overjoyed. On some level, I was ecstatic. But anger bubbled up in me as well, and I gripped her upper arms and pushed her just far enough away that I could look her in the eyes. “Jacey, you’ve been icing me out for almost a month.”Her eyes welled with tears, but she quickly dashe
-Caleb-A month later, Masterson was in prison, and Jacey and I were back on the farm. She had spoken to me less and less as the weeks passed and was now icing me out altogether. I didn’t blame her. I’d given her false hope.But I’d been so sure Masterson was going to bungle it with Will. A bad nann
“Good luck with that. Look, I really am on your side. This plea bargain is a good thing. Twenty-five years isn’t a short prison sentence, and maybe in that amount of time, he’ll be able to reflect on his actions. Hell, I don’t know, maybe he’ll find Jesus. What I do know is Masterson can provide for
“I hear what you’re saying,” Officer Alexander replied slowly. “And Lord knows I agree with you, but there’s nothing we can do, Jacey. Nothing. Do you understand? I want you to tell me you understand before we go back out there. You can’t make a scene.”My hands balled into fists. “If they don’t wan