"Yet all I needed was you."
* * * *
Flynn passed him the telescope. "Go on, Pa, look! See that bump in the dirt?"
He looked through the lens to where the boy pointed excitedly. Yes, there was a bump in the field behind the house. It wasn't visible until the wheat was cut down, but now he could see it clearly.
"Let's go see, Pa! It might be that pirate treasure Steadfast Putnam buried."
Storm was surprised the boy still remembered that story. Must have stuck in Flynn's mind, just as it had done in his when Reverend Coles first told him.
So they took shovels down to the field and dug. They didn't have to go far down before they found an old sack and inside it, neatly tied stacks of bank notes, silver snuff boxes, ivory combs, rings and all manner of trinkets in silver and gold.
"It's the treasure!" Flynn exclaimed, dropping his shovel. "We found it."
Whoever buried it there hadn't taken too much trouble to hide it, but the wheat had done the job for them while it was still growing.
Of course, Storm knew it wasn't Putnam's buried treasure because the bank notes were pounds and there was no Spanish gold.
"See, Pa! We found the pirate treasure like you wanted. Finders Keepers!"
The boy looked up at him with shining eyes, sandy hair falling over his brow, rosy cheeks glowing with good health. And suddenly he realized that Flynn had done this for him. He'd taken the money out of his mother's spinet and buried it to make treasure for them to find together.
He ruffled the boy's hair and laughed. "So we did, Flynn. I never imagined I'd ever find so much treasure."
He might be the quietest of all his father's litter, he might not know a lot of big words, or possess any fashionable clothes. But Storm Deverell was the richest man alive.
It was a damnably good day to be living.
Also from Jayne Fresina and TEP:
Souls Dryft
The Taming of the Tudor Male Series
Seducing the Beast
Once A Rogue
The Savage and the Stiff Upper Lip
The Deverells
True Story
Storm
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The Trouble with His Lordship’s Trousers
December 2015
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jayne Fresina sprouted up in England, the youngest in a family of four daughters. Entertained by her father's colorful tales of growing up in the countryside, and surrounded by opinionated sisters - all with far more exciting lives than hers - she's always had inspiration for her beleaguered heroes and unstoppable heroines.
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