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I thought Caleb just cared about the money, but with every interaction he had with those cows, it was like . . . he was a different person. I didn’t mind it.
Still, when we spent time together, I enjoyed it. After the third checkup, before it was time to sell, Caleb took a deep breath, stretching his hands.
“Thanks for this, Tina,” he said.
“Hey, you’re paying me. So, in a way, it’s on you,” I told him.
“Nah, it’s really all thanks to you. You’ve been helping me with the horse and the cows. I mean, you are pretty cute, but you’ve got a great heart. If you ever thought of getting into farming, this is the way to do it,” he said.
I nodded. Sure, it was nice, but I didn’t think I’d be fitting for that.
“I see,” I replied.
Caleb grabbed some feed and put it out for them. He stretched his body, sighing. “Would be nice if my helpers showed up soon.”
“You don’t have anyone helping right now?”
“Until it’s time for them to be fed, nah. The cows are good, though. I can do it mostly myself,” he explained.
I looked around. That’s one thing that surprised me. Caleb had this whole farm all to himself, and, well, I always thought he had a gaggle of people—he could afford it.
“I’m surprised there aren’t others.”
“I do have some come in to feed and milk the cows, but a lot of this is all on me.”
“Why is that? If you don’t mind me asking.”
He laughed. “Simple. I’m a one-man army. I love doing things on my own. And well, given how much David and Glenn helped our father, and myself being the only one that stepped up, even a little bit, I’m sure that played a part in it too.”
Wait, Glenn and David didn’t? Granted, I never saw the guy on the farm, but holy shit.
“Wait, you’re telling me that David never helped out?” I leaned forward, invested in all of this.
Caleb laughed, grabbing another bag of feed and putting it out. “You’re only interested when I bring up David, aren’t you?”
I blushed, tensing up as I closed my bag. That was so not true. “No, I just . . . you mention him a lot, so I have to know.”
Caleb grabbed another bale of hay and put it in one of the stalls. “Well, that’s the truth of it. Dad and I built this place together. We’ve been the main guys behind, well, everything. Dad and I built this farm from the ground up, really. Glenn was always a numbers dude, and he helped dad with the stocks. It’s thanks to his ass that we have the farm, so I can’t hate the guy.”
That kind of made sense.
“Yeah, these farms aren’t cheap.”
“Oh, you’re telling me. But my dad had a great meat business, and we sold off a chunk of it. Between that and stocks, we’ve created some amazing businesses. But David, he . . . he’s an asshole,” Caleb said.
I busted out laughing at those words. I continued to laugh, unable to form words.
“You find that funny?”
“Yes, yes, I do. Davidisan asshole, but hearing it straight from your mouth is not what I thought.”
He adjusted his cowboy hat and then nodded.
“Yeah, well, even as a little kid, David wanted nothing to do with any of the farmwork. He’d lie to Dad to get out of it. Sometimes, he’d even lie to me,” he explained.
“Damn,” I told him.
He nodded. “Yup. David was always the black sheep of the family, which is why after he screwed up his life, I couldn’t feel that bad about it.”
