He Cheated on Our Wedding Night, I Canceled His Fortune novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: The Gate

I dressed faster than I have ever dressed in my life.

My sweater was inside out, and I did not fix it.

Boone buttoned his torn shirt wrong and pulled his jacket over it.

"Stay behind me," he said.

"No."

"Annie."

"That's my yard," I said, and opened the door.

Brooke was already halfway across the gravel, dragging the old brown suitcase behind her.

Its wheel had broken off, and it screeched on every stone.

She did not look at us.

She looked at the ranch house.

The hands had come out of the feed barn to watch.

Six men stood in a ragged line with their hats in their hands and said nothing.

"Brooke," I said.

She stopped.

Her face was blotchy, and she had not slept.

"Where's my father's ranch house?" she said. "That one?"

I stared at her.

"It's the only one with a porch."

"Thank you."

She started walking again.

I went after her.

"You can't be here. You slapped me yesterday in front of forty people. Get in your car and go."

"I can't go," she said, without slowing. "I don't have anywhere to go."

"You have the Kells."

"The Kells threw us out."

That stopped me.

"Mrs. Kell fired my mother at six this morning. More than thirty years in that kitchen." Her voice broke. "She had one hour to pack, and she's sitting in a motel in Sheridan with her sewing machine."

"That is not my fault."

"I know."

"Then why come here?"

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