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“Seriously? That’s great! I was thinking about obtaining that piece of land but they told h,” Mark exclaimed He’d been upset when he found out the land was purchased without being placed on the ive him first choice, but the cranky old h land and didn’t need any ht him on the matter but he’d hoped to one day own it and expand his ranch further He no longer cared, though because he’d e he really didn’t need

“You remember Jed? He was friends with one of the kids of the old uy wanted tophysical to keep me busy DC offered me a desk job, but there’s just no way,” Chad said with excitement

“Hell yeah,” Lucas juuys instead of locked in the office all day”

“I’ out there too lare directed at his oldest son

“Wouldn’t dream of it,” Lucas answered with a chuckle

“Now that you have the land, when are you going to fill it up with kids?” Joseph asked, roan

“There’s nothing wrong with e and kids Half of you in this rooe jumped in

“I’uys, so back off,” Chad said with a chuckle, though he eyed Joseph for an extra second tosuspicion the old es of his kids and nephews George and Joseph were twin brothers and had got the idea into their heads that life wasn’t co all over him

Chad wasn’t one of their kids, but being best friends with Mark et He could practically feel the arrow aiht towards his chest

“I don’t knohat you’re talking about, boy, but a good wo,” Joseph said

“I have plenty of wo on any of them,” Chad answered back Joseph shook his head and went back to talking to his brother The boys all laughed, happy with their small victory Chad could hold his own any day of the week

While everyone was occupied, Chad stepped out on the balcony, needing a fewJoseph He certainly wasn’t ahimself down in a relationship There were too many complications

He looked out over the large back yard and sighed It had been a long time since he’d been able to relax and sood or bad thing At least with his own land, he could work night and day if he desired He wouldn’t have to answer to another person, and more importantly, he wouldn’t be responsible for other people’s lives

“Ti breath, then stepped through the door He kissed Katherine on the cheek as he passed by She was like a mother to him He didn’t kno his life would’ve turned out if it hadn’t been for Joseph and Katherine They were the kind of parents every kid drea He’d bend over backwards for them – all they had to do was ask

She was sick of it While she loved each one of her brothers, she was tired of their overbearing, overprotective, he-et away for a while, take time for herself and prove she wasn’t so twenty-four hour supervision

Brianne Lynn Anderson, or as everyone called her, Bree, was the youngest of four children Her siblings were all strong, stubborn, alpha males who treated her like she was still ten years old, even though she enty-eight and a college graduate

She hadn’t er than a feeeks because once theyfor the hills She was so disgusted with the cowards for running that she wasn’t even upset when they left Still, she’d like to actually find out what it was like to be treated like a woin in the United States Her brothers would like for her to die an old maid

She juas pedal Her father had summoned her to Joseph’s mansion for a welcoured it was the perfect time to escape from her overprotective fa south - the farther she pulled away, the bigger her smile becah it was overcast and cold she flipped open her sunroof and stuck her hand in the open air She laughed with pure joy at what she was doing

Maybe by the time she returned, her fairl anymore and they could let her live her own life She loved the

Chad sat on the couch holding a glass of deep a as he enjoyed the warmth from both the liquor and the flames in front of him

The Macallan sixty-year-old Single Malt Whiskey was like butter on his tongue He laughed at the idea that anyone would spend sixty thousand dollars on a single bottle of alcohol, even one that tasted as good as what he was sipping Chad was incredibly wealthy by anyone’s standards, but sixty thousand

Over the past twenty years, Chad hadn’t had to spend anything of what he ht into invest him with millions He’d paid cash for his ranch and it hadn’t even al his entire life, changing his ouldn’t be easy As his commander had said many times, he needed to live a little, whatever the hell that meant

The Anderson’s overnment needed to be bailed out in a crisis situation, Joseph Anderson ho they called Hea bit, but still, the family was America’s Royalty

Chad didn’t knohy he’d been summoned back to Joseph’s place He’d just been there the previous week for dinner and he needed to get his ranch settled However, when Mark called and asked for a favor, he would always drop everything and be there for him – just like he knew the same was true of Mark If Chad needed him, he’d be there – and with back-up