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Adrian banged the gavel. Blake thought he enjoyed having the power of being director of the board over the ranch. Once they won the lottery, Adrian had a lawyer set up their ranch as a corporation and they were the board of directors. It was a legal maneuver for taxes and also to keep it in the family.
“This meeting is called to order. Garth read the financial statement.”
His youngest brother, the game player, pulled out a sheet of paper.
“This is from our accountant,” he said. They all knew he hadn’t done the numbers. The boy was not accountant material.
He read the statement and they all nodded.
“Evan, read the minutes from the last meeting,” Adrian said.
Evan, one of the twins, was devilishly handsome, but he was also so damn practical, he acted like a grandmother. It was a wonder the man ever dated. And yet he’d taken their parents’ death the hardest. He’d been the one to find their bodies buried beneath the rubble and started screaming.
Dakota sat back, looking bored. He was the other twin and he was also the grumpiest. Sometimes Blake was tempted to smack him upside the head with a pan just to make him realize he was so cantankerous. They referred to him as the “grumpy bachelor.”
It would be a miracle if he ever married. It would be a miracle if a woman accepted his nastiness.
Last, there was Cody, the professional football player, womanizer, and bad boy. Right now, he was busy with training camp and unable to attend. The preseason started in two weeks and they wouldn’t see him again until football season was done. The man attracted women like flies to horse shit and it was always interesting when he was around.
The six boys were blessed that a lottery ticket had saved their ranch. But they would have given all that money back to have their parents here with them.
They were all different and they each held a special spot in Blake’s heart. Being brothers, they had shared good times and bad, and now they were all filthy, stinking rich and were careful with what they’d been given.
“Are the minutes approved?” Adrian, the oldest asked.
“Aye,” they all said together and laughed.
“Any new business?” Adrian asked.
Blake held up his hand like a five-year-old. “About two weeks ago, I received a letter that I had a child. It was not signed, nor no mention of which old girlfriend had given birth. I’ve been searching for the mother and this past week, I found her.”
Adrian frowned. “How do you know it’s your child.”
“Because he has the Landry’s blue eyes, our father’s cheekbones, and mother’s hair, not to mention the cleft in my chin. He’s most definitely a Landry.”
Madison sighed. “Even so, I would recommend that you get a DNA test.”
“Wyatt is his name and he’s mine,” Blake said so certain.
“Who is the mother?” Garth asked. “You haven’t dated many women, especially since that last one, Taylor, tried to shanghai you.”
Blake grimaced at the mention of Taylor’s name. “I met Cristina the night that Taylor and I broke up. I was in Fort Worth and I went to a club down in the Stockyards. We had a good time and well things progressed very fast.”
“Have you heard of using a condom?” Garth his youngest brother replied. “Keeps some diseases away and pregnancy as well.”
Always a smart ass.
“Yes, we used several, and somewhere along the way, one of them must have broken,” he said. “Condoms are not foolproof.”
Adrian shook his head and sighed. “Why is she just now telling you about this kid?”
His brothers were all skeptical and he couldn’t blame them. They were trying to protect him.
“She didn’t contact me. We don’t know who sent the letter, but I went to visit all my old girlfriends and I was just about to give up when I saw her on the flight coming back from Charlottesville.”
Dakota laughed. “You went back to Charlottesville trying to find out who had given birth? You haven’t been back there in years, not since you graduated college. I bet that was interesting.”
That was true. It was something he would never repeat.
