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“Well, come on in, and I’ll introduce you,” I said.
We walked inside, and Tina’s eyes looked around at all the cows. “There are at least a hundred cows here.”
“A hundred and fifty, to be more accurate,” I told her.
She looked around the place, and then she nodded.
“I didn’t know any of this was here. Back when I came here with David, I never saw this place.” Tina walked towards one of the cows, checking his vitals, and I stood near the door.
“David never wanted this type of life. Dad asked if he wanted to take care of the cattle, and he gave him a huge hell no. David . . . never liked the farming aspects of the estate. Partially why he ran off with that one girl.”
“Yeah, that one chick from the next town over. I sure remember that,” Tina muttered.
That had to be the girl that David saw after Tina.
“You know, I do believe that David, as good a man as he is, made a huge ass mistake when it came to you,” I told her.
She finished checking on the cow, sitting there next to me. The closeness of our bodies was nice, to say the least. I looked at her, noticing her eyes filled with annoyance at the mention of David but also a strange sweetness too.
“So you know that . . . David cheated on me with that girl then.”
I whistled. “Well, I knew David was a skirt chaser, but I didn’t know he’d be that cold. I put it together after a little bit, but yeah. Honestly, I never understood why David did that. He didn’t know how to commit, and it upset even my father.”
I knew I was the favorite of the three brothers. Glenn did his own thing and was out in some skyscraper, making millions in stock trading. I never liked that. David was impulsive, and we rarely got along.
But . . . I never wanted to leave this place. Did it make me the black sheep? Perhaps, but I also never thought it was wrong of me either.
I looked at Tina, and I could sense the conversation was awkward for her. So, I put my arm around her shoulder. “Listen, I know David is a hard subject for you, but I’ll say that . . . it’s not easy for me either.”
“It’s not?”
I shook my head. “He’s a good man, but he makes absolutely terrible decisions. I told him this, and I reckon that one day it’ll come back to haunt his ass, but for now, you’ve just got to move on, live your own life, and let your idiot brother make the biggest mistake of his life.”
Tina laughed. “I doubt I was the biggest mistake. Not by far.”
“Oh, you’d be surprised, hun. Even just one conversation with you told me that David was a dumbass for cheating on you,” I said.
She turned towards me, and I could see the threat of a blush creeping on her face. “You’re sweet, Caleb. Not like . . . David,” she admitted.
I laughed. “So, you finally admitted it.”
“It’s not that I like you; it’s just . . . you’re different, that’s all.”
I’d take different. I stretched out, watching her do her work.
“I suppose I am.”
She continued to check the cows, and then, after an hour, the general assessments were done. She sat along the side, and I grabbed a bottle of water from the little cooler I kept here.
“Thanks.”
“Hey, no problem. You’re helping me.”
We each sipped on the water, and she turned to me.
“So, you’re a cattle farmer?”
“Rancher. I usually sell these bad boys off for me, but there’s a couple I do keep for milk.”
