by Rachel Hanna
“You won’t be hearing from your attorney or any collection agencies in regard to your ex-husband anymore.”
“What?”
“I might be an old country boy at heart, but I know how to negotiate. I know how to lean on people. And I wanted you to have a fresh start, Emmy. I hope you don’t mind that I may have interfered just a tad.”
“Brick, this is too much,” she said.
“Emmy, we have history, and it wasn’t always good. Just take this as my way of trying to make up for what I said and did back then.”
Emmy instinctively hugged him. “Thank you so much, Brick.”
“Everything okay out here?” Nash asked as he walked up.
“Everything is perfect,” Emmy said, beaming as she looked up at him. And everything was perfect.
“I’ll leave you to it. Congratulations, son. You’ve got a good one here,” Brick said as he squeezed his son’s shoulder and walked back inside.
“What was that all about?” Nash asked.
“Long story. I’ll tell you all about it later.”
“Later, huh?” Nash said as he pulled her close and pressed his lips softly against hers. “Got any plans for right now?”
Emmy peeked around his shoulder and looked through the sliding glass doors leading into the house. “Well, since the only person that seems to be left is your friend Deke, I’d say that our immediate plan should be to push him down the front stairs, lock the doors and get this honeymoon started.”
“Ooooh, Mrs. Collier, I do like how you think!” Nash said, planting kisses down her neck. “Oh, Deke… can you meet me on the front porch?”
Emmy stood on the deck and watched Nash usher his friend out the front door. And as she turned and looked at the river below her, she imagined that one day her children would play in those same waters and maybe even jump from those same rocks, and she smiled.
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