Clare glared at his son. “Are you just now getting around to that, Micajah Donatello Lincoln?”
Cage frowned at his father. “She had to be able to travel, and she couldn’t when we got married, Father.”
“Oh, oh. Well, all right then, I guess.” He winked at his daughter-in-law.
Two weeks later, they were on a train. Rachel had thought that the travel part might be to Europe or something like that, but instead they were headed west, and she wasn’t quite sure how she felt about that. She was happy that he’d relented in allowing her to bring the baby rather than leaving him with a wet nurse, although she had gotten her first spanking—then her first loving—during that very same discussion, after which he declared that either she was going to move into his bedroom, or he was going to move into hers, but that they were not going to have separate bedrooms any longer.
As a result, she was a very satisfied woman sitting next to her husband and holding their baby.
She had no idea where they were headed, although the direction certainly was familiar, and the further they went, the more familiar it got until they got off at the same town she had when she’d been fleeing from the East.
Rachel looked a bit apprehensive when he helped her off the train, but he tucked her arm under his as they got into a hired cab and headed out of town—in very much the same direction as her little “patch of heaven” had been.
They didn’t end up exactly there, but relatively close to it, standing on a piece of land that had a cute little cabin and whose landscape looked much like the one she’d lost, with a small pasture that needed fencing, and a barn that was a bit bigger and in better repair—as was the cabin.
She looked up at her husband, who looked down at her as if he was going to bust.
Then he handed her a piece of paper and took the baby out of her arms, saying, “Read it.”
When she opened it, it was a deed to the property they were standing on. She looked up at him, puzzled.
“You were so happy here, I know—before I came along and caused it to be destroyed. I wanted you to have that again.” He looked down, away from her, then back again. “I just want you to be happy. If this is where you’re happy, then we can live here.”
Rachel was amazed and humbled that he would do that for her. She took a step towards her husband and her son. “I am happy wherever you are.”
Cage didn’t look at all convinced. “How could you really be happy with me? I tied you up, I almost cost you your life–”
“You were surly and insufferable and autocratic and mean. Yes, you were all those things.” She reached up and cupped his cheek. “You were also on the run for your life and in a tremendous amount of pain. You also washed away all of the fear I had about being touched intimately that he had left with me. You brought me a paradise of a different kind, and you were good to me when you weren’t being a bastard.”
Cage knew it was now or never. “I love you, Rachel. I love everything about you, and I adore our son. I don’t care where we live. I can be perfectly happy homesteading with you, here. We could build a wonderful home here.”
Tears flooded down Rachel’s cheeks as she leaned against him and kissed him. “We have a wonderful home in New Orleans, and your father is of an age that he needs his family around him.” She held his face between her palms, and whispered, “And I love you, too, every surly, mean, ogreish bit of you.” She lowered her tone, as if the baby might hear her, “Even the parts that spank me.”
Cage reached down and swung his wife and their child around, barely able to believe how happy he was with the two of them. “Then this will be our country home.”
“A perfect solution,” Rachel agreed. “We’ll get a Sissy and a Cleo and chickens, too”
Cage merely nodded. He’d give her anything she wanted—literally—as long as she was his.
Carolyn Faulkner
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