Page 54 of Opposites (Never) Attract
What if I’d known who all of them were in high school? What would it have been like to be the McGraw brothers’ sister?
I would not have gotten picked on as much. I probably would have even made a few friends. Who knows?
Of course, they probably wouldn’t have let me date Tag…
“Earth to Sunshine,” Carter said, snapping his fingers close to my face. “Hello? Fate of everything rests with your answer.”
“Don’t make her nervous,” Ethan admonished him.
“Gentlemen, I’ve dealt with billion-dollar transactions before. Trust me when I tell you I’m not nervous. When I tell you it’s a risk, it is, so you’ll have to trust me.”
“Trust you with what?” Carter asked.
“Everything,” I told them. “Tell me you trust me and I’ll tell you the plan.”
Their eyes met over me and I knew a silent sibling conversation when I saw one.
Bliss and Amity could communicate for hours without speaking a word.
“Harmony trusts her,” Ethan finally said.
“Harmony trusts everyone,” Carter frowned. “But it’s not like we have a choice. You and Harm. Me and the kids. Mac. Every last citizen of Last Hope Gulch, we all have to trust her. Okay, we’re in. Now, what’s this big idea?”
“I’m going to take a significant chunk of value out of the property in a short term loan and I’m going to invest it in crypto.”
The expected explosion, exploded.
“Fuck no.”
“Crypto? No.”
“Are you out of your mind?”
“What even is crypto?”
“A mistake, is what it is.”
I smiled and gave Shirley a gentle tap with my heels to get her to move ahead of the boys, back to the paddock.
“Good,” I said over my shoulder. “I’m glad you trust me.”
ELEVEN
TAG
I leftthe barn in a piss all mood. Fucking Donald was drunk again.
Seasonally, we picked up a lot of extra laborers and Donald knew his shit. But knowing your shit when you were drunk before noon didn’t do me any good. I had to fire him, watch him get his gear out of the bunkhouse, and then go back and do his job for him.
The good news was, calving season was coming to an end. We had a few hundred late cows who would give birth any minute, but the rest of the herd had yielded a high, successful birthrate. And given that we moved part of the herd to be solely grass fed, those late births would work in our favor as we could begin to advertise a boutique line of grass-fed beef.
I would be happy to let the extra staff go and all the headaches that came with them, and just focus on the day-to-day operations of the ranch.
The paddock door closed behind two cows and their calves who needed to be watched because they weren’t latching on properly, and I glanced up just as Sunshine andthe boys, which sounded like a retro hippy band, broke through the tree line into the east meadow. From this distance, Sunshine looked like she was still sitting loose and happy in the saddle, so that was good news.
Must be all those core exercises she was so fond of.
My mind went back to the spa day in New York and I had to work to push the taste of her skin out of my head. The sight of her nipples, the sound of her low moan of need. I didn’t need to be greeting Sunshine with a hard on in front of her brothers.
