The Billionaire's Secret Love Child(118)

As we started to harvest, things started looking bad. All the work that we put into saving the crops turned out to be mostly wasted. Our yield was small and was nowhere near enough to pay off the bills.

Mike knew it, Buck and Larry knew it, and even I could tell that this might just be the end for the small farm. I took an afternoon and even packed up my things just in case we were forced off.

Another two weeks passed, and Mr. Grant made a house call. He had a sad look plastered to his face.

“Mike, I know how long ya’ll have lived here. I knew your dad quite well before he passed on. But, I can’t keep it going like this. This is costing me more money than I want. I need to cut you off.”

“Mr. Grant, I appreciate all you done for me and mine. We appreciate your hard work. How long do you think we got?”

Mr. Grant held out a piece of paper. Ninety days.

I could feel the sting of defeat as he read it. Mr. Grant just said his goodbyes and went off on his way.

We must’ve drunk every last drop of alcohol on the grounds that night, after the first few rounds of drinks, they didn’t even notice that I hadn’t touched a drop the entire night.

As the sun began to peek over the horizon, I felt it necessary to go for another ride. I knew I’d miss my horse, and I’d miss the small ranch house. And my pregnancy was at in its early stages anyways.

When I got in the stables, I happen to stumble over Mike, passed out from drinking all night. I crouched down over the top of him and tapped him on the cheek once or twice. He didn’t budge.

I hauled a water bucket in from outside and took the liberty of waking him up the hard way. I drenched him from top to bottom, and I can’t say I’ve ever seen a man jump up from the ground so fast in my entire life.

I laughed a much-needed laugh, and Mike did the same when he realized what was going on.

“Morning, Mike,” I said between chortles.

“Morning, Jessie,” he coughed.

I saddled up my horse while Mike wrung his clothes out.

“I see you’re going out for a ride again, mind some company?”

“If you can keep up, you can keep me company.”

He took it as a challenge and started saddling up his horse. I took off from the barn like a bullet. I think my horse was the fastest, and it had the lightest load. But, Mike kept pace behind me. I figured I wouldn’t try to outrun him, so I let him catch me from time to time just enough to let my horse relax a little, before lurching forward.

“Jessie, this way,” I barely heard from behind me.

When I turned, I could see Mike turning into a patch of trees over the side of a small hill. My curiosity got the better of me, and I followed him.

When I caught up to him, I could see he was already off his horse and beginning to strip off his shirt. The area was romantic; it was a small pond, almost completely clear to the bottom and surrounding us was a bundle of trees that grew thick.

I was feeling peaceful.

“Mike, what is this place?”

Mike was starting to strip off his still-wet jeans, and I hopped off my horse.

“This is a pond that I found when I was twelve years old. I used to come out here sometimes when my chores were done and go for a swim. It’s fresh water, bubbles up from underground, so it’s really clean water. Thought you and I could have us one last swim, and maybe I could forget these past two months.”

I started stripping off my clothes; the water looked inviting.

“I have tried my best to forget a lot of bad things by running away from a lot of problems.”

“Oh yeah? You don’t look like someone that has that many problems,” he said while stripping off his boxers.

I paused for a second to get a good look at his naked butt running into the water. That was something I doubt I’d ever forget.

“Everyone’s got problems. I’m no different,” I said while pulling off my underwear.

“Well, at this point you know all of mine. Tell me one.”

I didn’t want to share, but he looked so cute in the water.

“My sister got married to a real creep, and she did it because my mother pushed her into it. I ran away because I think she was trying to do the same to me.”

I could tell that he barely heard a word that I said. His eyes were staring at my naked body and the attention was turning me on a little bit.

“You have a sister?” he asked.

“Just the one,” I replied, “I sometimes wonder what she’s gotten herself into in the city.”

I slipped into the water. It was cool at first, but as my skin warmed up, it became quite refreshing.

“Why don’t you call her, the phone works fine.”

“If I tell her where I am, they might come looking for me. I don’t want to be found right now,” I said, “I like it here with you boys. You feel like more of a family than the one I left.”

Mike smiled at me, a wide beaming smile, and then he splashed me in the face.

“What was that for?!” I shouted.

“Next time don’t splash a bucket of water on my face,” he said.

I was shocked at his sudden playfulness. I started splashing him back, and he did the same. He fought his way over and lifted me out of the water, tossing me back far enough that I splashed into the water.

“You jerk!” I screamed between laughs.