CHAPTER TWENTYJack Raftery
Jack leaned his chair back against the wall of the porch and watched Callie drive off down the road. Her head turned as she passed the Thackrey house, and her father knew she was looking for a glimpse of that damned woman over there. She had changed while she worked in Dallas. Everything kept changing! Jack hadn’t minded so much when he was younger and Cora was alive and Pa was there to help him manage the farm and his own life. But then Cora died.
Jack never forgave her for that. She had questioned his judgment many times, over the years, which wasn’t fitting for a woman, and then she up and left him to raise their child alone. It was just like her to do something like that. He never thought of her without his blood pressure rising.
Callie, too, turned out to
