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much it would cost. I had to save for months just to get her buried there."
    Grabbing her hand, I pull it towards me and kiss her knuckles. “I’ll take care of everything.” I don’t care how much it is going to cost me to bring her here; I will make sure she’s here where she belongs.

“What have you been doing since I’ve been in New York?” She’s now laying on the other side of the bed from me and her head is on my pillow. I’ve seriously have dreamed about this for years. She probably thinks I’m crazy, but I don’t even care. Having her in the home that I built for us makes things feel like they are right for the first time in years.  
    “I’ve been doing this.” I’m laying on the other side and my eyes are on her.  
    “Doing what exactly?” She gives me a cute little grin and I love seeing the happy look on her face.  
    “Everything on the ranch. I do all the chores now and make sure all the animals are fed and everything. I mend the fences, stall cleaning, feeding, turnout, barn cleanliness and organization, maintenance, barn chores, exercising horses, and grooming. I’m a one-man shop baby.” She starts to giggle and her hand goes to my chest. I'm not really a one-man shop. I have four guys that work for me, not including when Tate helps out.
    Her eyes widen, and she tries pull away. Grabbing her wrist, I pull her closer to me and rest my arm around her. At first she’s tense, but after a few minutes she loosens up again. I pull her closer and she puts her hand on my chest to keep a little bit of a distance between us. “How was New York?”  
    She looks down for a second before she looks back into my eyes. “It was amazing at first. I went everywhere and took pictures everywhere.” She looks down and messes with her hands before looking back up at me. “I’ll bring the pictures one day so you can see mine and Gracilyn’s adventures. We did and saw everything. You’ll get to see how big I got.” A tear slips down her face and I reach to wipe it off. “I loved it there, but I was always missing one thing.”  
    Swallowing the lump in my throat, I wait for her to continue. I need her to say the words in order to believe it. She looked so damn happy when I went to see her in New York, so I can’t bring myself to believe that she missed me at all while she was gone. “I missed you so damn much. If I would have known you were in New York, I would have dropped everything. Hell, I probably would have begged you to stay with me so we could raise her together.”  
    She has no fucking idea how much I would have wanted that. How much I wanted to walk up to that asshole she was walking with when I saw her, but I didn’t. I just watched them from a distance. I saw when he kissed her cheek and when he wrapped his arm around her as he led her to some shitty ass fucking car.
    “Pretty sure the pretty boy asshole you were with wouldn’t have liked that.” I can feel my face turn up in a sneer and I see her start to smile.  
    “Jealous much?” she giggles.
    “Yeah he had my wife all cuddled up in his arms and I wanted to break them.” I frown and she leans forward and presses a light kiss to my nose.  
    “He wasn’t my boyfriend. I know I probably made you think he was the other day, but he was just a friend.” I shake my head no and she wrinkles her nose. “What?”
    “Baby, that kid was not just your friend. No man would honestly just do that to a girl he was friends with. If he wasn’t getting any from you, I have no idea what he was thinking. I definitely wouldn’t let that fly between us, but then again I got to fuck you all the time.” I waggle my eyebrows at her and she shakes her head.  
    “You’re too much.” She groans, pushing against my chest. “When did you get your dog?”  
    “I got him about a year after dad died. He was pretty much one of the only things that keep me going at some points. Losing my father was one of the hardest things I’ve ever been