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“Oh, Amelia. I doubted you, but you were right,” Ranger chuckled.
“What?” Austin looked as confused as I felt. “What are you talking about?”
“Yeah, I’m confused as well,” I chimed in.
Amelia just sat there beaming. “Oh, my dear,” she grinned at Austin and then at me. “I am the best matchmaker in the world, aren’t I?” She looked at Ranger. “Didn’t I tell you that I knew what I was doing?”
“I guess you did, my love,” he said.
“What is going on here, Mom and Dad? Please tell me.” Austin shook his head, “I’m really confused.”
“Amelia, do you want to tell them?” Ranger said.
“I think I should,” she laughed. “So as you know, I want grandkids.”
“We all know that, Mom,” Austin nodded. “Now, hurry up with the story, please?”
“Austin, don’t talk to your mom that way!” I frowned at him.
“Sorry, Mom.”
“That’s okay. And thank you, Lucy,” she grinned at me. “I appreciate you speaking up for me.”
“No worries, Amelia. I know how Austin can be.”
“Oh, yes, dear. You know. Well, as I was saying, I wanted grandkids in the house, and I have seven tall, strapping sons, and I just need at least one of them to get married.”
“Yes, Mom,” Austin said as he rolled his eyes. “Let’s hurry it up, please.”
“Oh, Austin, you have so little patience. He’s got such a hard head, you know?” she looked at me. “And that’s why I did it.”
“Did what?”
“Put the ad in the newspaper,” she replied. “But I wasn’t looking necessarily for Beau. I was just looking for a match for one of my sons.”
“Okay, and?”
“And Lucy responded. And well, she was a breath of fresh air. She sent me such beautiful emails, and then we spoke on the phone, and I realized that she was a perfect match.”
“She’s not a perfect match. I already told you that, Mom,” Austin cleared his throat. “She and Beau are not—”
“I never said for Beau, dear,” she said. “Beau was never the one I had in mind for Lucy.”
“You what?” Austin’s eyes narrowed. “I’m confused.”
“I knew all along that Lucy was perfect for you, son.” She looked at her husband. “Didn’t I tell you that, Ranger? Didn’t I say I’m talking to a woman that I think would be absolutely perfect for Austin?”
“Yes, you did, my dear. Yes, you did.”
“You knew that Austin and I would be a great match?” I said in surprise. “Seriously?”
“But I know my hard-headed, stubborn son. If I were to tell him that I had sent for a bride from New York to marry him, he would have said, hell no! And no matter how much he was attracted to you or how much he would have wanted to be with you, he would have said no because that’s just his personality. He’s obstinate and hard-headed and—”
“We get it, Mom. You think I’m hard-headed.” Austin chuckled. “So you thought Lucy and I would get along?”
“Yes. But I knew that if you thought she was here for you, then it would never work. So we told everyone that she was here for Beau.”
“Wait, what? You lied to me? Does Beau know?”
