Jacob POV
Seven and a half hours later, I was standing on the tarmac of a small private airstrip helping Ray and his family load whatever belongings they had. Dad had arranged for a private plane to pick up Ray and his family to take them back to Blue Ridge. Dad had also sent Ben to accompany them. Ben didn’t come with us on this trip because his mate, Alexa- yes, you heard that right- Alexa was close to giving birth to their first child when we left. I couldn’t pull him away from that no matter how much I think his mate is a b***h. Well, OK, used to be a b***h. Ben spent most of our adolescence crushing on her and Zane, and I could never figure out why. She was two years behind us in school and the biggest b***h that you could ever come across, and that included being that way towards Be
