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“Oh, you know. I asked Barbara what information she had on you, and she gave me your company’s name. I phoned them for your home address.”
“Who’s Barbara?” I asked. Jada made a face.
“The receptionist at Lazy Eye.”
I nodded. Right. That was her name. “Since when does the firm give out personal information?” I asked.
Jada grinned. “Since I told them I was a pregnant girlfriend and I needed to find you to sue you. I told her I thought maybe one of the other partners could take on the case. Then I started crying and she almost shouted at at me.”
She looked like she enjoyed the drama. I watched her grin, and I wondered how I’d managed the past week without her.
“What are you doing here?” I finally asked. We’d parted horribly, and still she was in my apartment and we got along like we were old friends. I’d missed this feeling of home that hung around her.
“I came to tell you I didn’t want you to go. That I would come with you, if you really wanted me to, because without you it’s really pointless anyway.”
She looked calm and confident when she said it. The words came easily, and I wondered how it had been so hard until now for her to just tell me she wanted me. But when she stopped talking she turned her head away, looking shy.
I stepped closer to her, wrapping my arms around her. She fit into them like she was made for them, and her body curved against mine. I felt every part of her, and it felt right. I sighed and kissed her on the head. Then on the lips.
“I’ve got a better idea,” I said.
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Moving back to Westham was easier than I’d thought it would be. I packed up my clothes, one suitcase that defined who I truly was really seemed petty at the end of it all. I got professional cleaners in to sort out the apartment and I found an agent who would help me rent it out as a furnished unit. The extra money couldn’t hurt.
Going back home was easier than I’d thought it would be as well. I’d half-expected to have to fight my demons, but none of that happened. I bought the plot of land across from my parents’ place and built a farm house on it. I didn’t ask Jada if she wanted to move in with me. Not yet. For now, just dating her was plenty. But on the land I built a ranch house and I set up stables and fields and barns. I got cows and sheep and a couple of young guys from the next town over to help out over the summer and maybe stay on permanently. I was thinking of making it into a dude ranch for tourists, with more horses.
I loved having horses around me again. I got rid of my suits and bought more jeans and real boots for riding.
Dean and I weren’t on the best footing yet, but it would get there. I wanted to be there for him, to help him, and to let him understand that no matter how much I loved Jada and Keisha, no matter how much they meant to me, he would always be in their lives, in our lives, and he would always be Keisha’s father.
I bought the café from my brother so Jada owned it, and Dean used the money to buy Keisha her own pony that could stay on the ranch. He looked better and better every day, even though he never really stopped drinking completely, and he suddenly tried to be a sheriff again.
When the farm that used to belong to my parents was sold and the farm house wrecked to make way for a new house and a new family, both of us felt like a part of us was torn out, but it felt good at the same time, to finally be able to let go and move on.
And with two ranches in the old ghost town, Cosmos Valley suddenly had new life again.
Life was good.
We lived like this for a year. The ranch slowly picked up, and more and more tourists came round. The family that lived on the old farm had a little boy only two years older than Keisha, and from day one they were joined at the hip. She stayed over there and they watched her when everyone needed to work. Mrs. Cole finally got to relax.
The sun set over the horizon, painting the sky in shades of pink and red and orange, and the trees made silhouettes against the burning sky. I rode the horse I’d bought to train myself. It was still skittish and very green, but it had so much potential. Jada sat on the back of an old mare that I’d bought for beginners and she clung to the horn in front of her for dear life. Keisha rode on her pony next to us, and Caleb, her friend, rode next to her on a pony of his own.
I led them down the hill and across a stream that cut my property in half, going back up the hill on the other side. Long thin shadows creeped along the ground, growing and melting into each other as the colors of dusk set in. When we got to the meadow that overlooked everything, beautiful in the silvery light of the falling night, Jada leaned against me. The kids were playing tag with their ponies.
“Thank you, for all of this,” Jada said. I knew she didn’t mean the ride. She meant life. She always told me how I’d fixed it. But she was wrong, in the end it had been her and Keisha who had fixed me, and brought me home.
“What are we going to do about those two when they get older?” I asked her, watching Keisha and Caleb play. “You know they’re not just going to grow apart. If anything, they’ll grow even closer.”
“Then we let them,” Jada said. “He’s a good kid.”
I nodded. Their whole family was good. I wasn’t Keisha’s father. She called me Tanner and she still saw Dean all the time. But I worried about her like any father would. If boys started coming into the picture, I was getting me a shot gun.
“This is beautiful, you’ve really made the place magical,” Jada said. I nodded.
“I need to talk to you about something,” I said, moving away from her. She frowned.
“This doesn’t sound good. The first two times you said that, all hell broke loose in my life.”
I grinned. “I know, I know. But this isn’t like that. I was wondering if you could manage the café if it moved here.”
“What?”
“You know, with the tourists and everything I was thinking we could move Casa Bonita onto the ranch and make it bigger, with a full kitchen and everything. Make it a diner.”
“Do we have the money for that?” she asked.
I nodded. I had a lot of money put away, and more was coming in with the rent from my apartment in the city. “I think we can work it out.”
“It’s going to be hard managing it from a distance, though. I’m so used to just walking out the back door and stepping into work.”
“Yeah, that would be hard. That’s why I was wondering if you would maybe like to move here with me? You and Keisha. I can make up the guest room next to mine for her.”
Jada looked at me with narrowed eyes. Since I’d come back I’d been the one that had been insisting we take it slow. Not just for her and Keisha’s sake, but for Dean’s as well. But I’d spoken to him last night, and he was okay with what I was about to do.
“Are you asking me to move in with you?” Jada asked. I shook my head.
“No,” I said and got onto one knee. I pulled the black box that had been bugging me for weeks out of my pocket and flipped it open.
“I’m asking you to marry me.”
Jada stared at the ring, and then at me. Her eyes were big and her mouth rounded in an ‘O’ of surprise. Keisha and Caleb were suddenly around us too. Keisha gasped.
“Does that mean I’ll have two dads?” she asked.
“Only if your mom says yes,” I said to her. I looked back at Jada, and she was crying and smiling at the same time.
“Yes,” she said. I smiled and hugged her, and she kissed me in the neck with wet cheeks.
“Yeah, two dads could be cool,” Caleb said, and when I looked at Keisha she was beaming.
“Very cool,” she breathed before she pulled her pony around and the kids started playing again.
I pulled Jada against me, my arm around her shoulders and she put her head on my shoulder. Together we watched as night fell across Cosmos Valley.
The End
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