Chapter 20
A few weeks later…
Jess sat in her chair in the office of Appleton Farm and closed her laptop as the sun began to set. The news report that Brock Letterman had been arrested still burned behind her eyes and she could re-read the headline in her mind without looking at her screen.
Blackmailed an Heiress, a Police Chief and a Politician, and he'd gotten caught tampering with evidence of a murder investigation.
If he did or didn’t do the crime, didn’t matter. At least Brock faced real consequences and she’d never have to hear his name again.
Not that it mattered.
She had Maverick and Carter and a life here that made her heart soar.
Maverick would be home from checking his fields and tonight it was just the two of them.
The quietness of the farm where nothing stirred, inc
