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Sophia stood in front of him with so many racing thoughts. She wasn’t expecting anything like this. At least not now. Maybe in a few years. She was trying to clear her mind and she knew there was no chance of that happening. She started to think of the couples she knew. The ones she saw. Some of them had been together for years before they got married and some were together for a few short months. They all seemed happy. There was no real time frame for this.
She had a few questions for herself though. She looked at him as he waited now with a panicked look on his face. She knew he was waiting. Could this work between them. She knew that it could. They worked well together. There might be issues but they talked things out. That was key. She had never met someone who was able to say what he wanted so clearly and then worked out the steps to get it done. He did that when she didn’t understand something he was doing. He explained it to her. That was a ke
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Three months later….Sophia was having trouble getting moving in the morning. It seemed every time she tried she got dizzy and just wanted to lie down. By noon she was feeling better and she dragged herself down stairs. The farm house was much bigger than what the two had though it would be when they first saw it.They had moved in together right away after they returned from the trip that brought them together in first place. The company was surprised when he decided to move his office from the building to his new house and did ninety percent of the work from home. He hired two people to help him oversee everything that was going on in the rebuilding of the company.The lawsuit that was brought to the company from a group of the workers that were fired on the trip ended with a counter lawsuit for knowingly putting the company at risk for sexual harassment charges and other things including the attack on Sophia
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Sophia knew her life had changed so much in a short amount of time. Micha’s had as well. The business was now growing even better without the other people in the company. He had made it, so it was much easier to come forward if there was a problem in the company, and he also made the departments better to work in.He had started rebuilding the structure from the ground up. Everyone knew that he was now happily married to Sophia though he did get the offer every once in a while for an affair. He thought the idea was absurd and would often outright tell the person. He made it perfectly clear that his wife was the only person he would be involved with.When it happened as well, he made sure to tell Sophia what took place and how he acted. Though he never held back as she grew with their first child, she started to have doubts about herself.Micha knew this was in her head, but he wasn't about to let it be the thing that broke
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Chapter 51The night started when he came to get her, and he looked at her head to toe and then grinned in a way that made her heart soar. He put out his arm and then led her to their SUV, and then he started driving.“Where are we going?” she asked as she looked at him. He was also dressed differently.“Sophia, I wanted to go somewhere where we could talk. Really talk first, and then I have a few things to show you.” He said, and she could feel her heart begin to drop. She knew what this talk was. She was trying to brace herself for the worst, but then he stopped, and they were by a field. The field had dots on the horizon that were familiar to her. They were nothing but cows that had been put out to graze for the fall. She smiled at the sight.“So you wanted to talk?” she asked as she tried to harden her voice a bit so he wouldn’t realize that he was breaking her heart b
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Chapter 52“Sadly, yes.” He said as he looked at her. “Baby, I know that telling you that means you are gonna want to bring all of them home with us, but I know you won’t. We could take them all, but your aversion to birds is a thing. I think they said they had mostly birds as well. We will see what you want, though, and then we will find the place to put them.”“Micha, we can’t just take on a working farm by ourselves and the help that we have. I understand what you are saying and doing, but I want you to know I can have some restraint.” Sophia said.“Then get in the car and show me some of this restraint.” He chuckled as he looked at her. “Because as soon as you see the late breeders, I doubt you will have any.”“Late breeders?” she asked.“Well, one of the things that made them decide to pack it up was an inci
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Chapter 53The two women walked through the first barn. Sophia saw that all the animals were in good condition. She was afraid they would be in less than taken care of when she heard they were going to auction. “To be honest, I just don’t have the time to deal with getting groups ready for sale. He helps, but honestly, his mind isn’t what it is used to be.” The older woman said. “When the vet first thought we would have some out-of-season babies, I laughed because he didn’t tell me anything. However, one of the stable hands then let me in on his ability to forget what he was doing, and then he could leave a gate open or something like that. After the first time, which is the result you will be looking at soon enough, the hands here all keep a close eye on him for me while I am handling something else.”“I am sorry,” Sophia said.“it is time for us to retire.&rdq
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Chapter 54“Evidence?” she asked.“Sophia, just hold on.” He said as he floored it onto the main road, and then he took off to the police department. The area was relatively small compared to him living in the middle of no where so the roundabout route he was taking led them to the department, and then he got her out, and they walked in and looked around.“Can I help you?” A voice in the back of them asked as the person looked around them.“I hope so,” Micha said as he looked at the person. “However, I am not sure that it is a crime. I do want to make sure that it is reported and documented.”“And that is what, sir?” the man asked as he looked intrigued by the way Micha said things.“So my wife and I were interested in buying some of the animals at the Hatchets farm,” Micha said. “I already bought their cattle, and then I kne
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Chapter 55“Come with us, please.” The captain said as he motioned for the couple to follow him. “Understand before we go into the room this is a very small department. We have a traveling detective that covers the entire county.”“Okay,” Micha replied as he looked at the men there. He had his hand at Sophia’s back and kept it there. He knew how small areas worked. They only had the sheriff's office that was twenty or so miles away from the ranch. Though this area was more populated than his, it was easy to see they would be shorthanded. Most farmers that were in the area had been there for generations. These people all grew up on the land as well.Sophia looked around the hallways, and then they walked into a small room. There were news articles on the walls taped up. She saw the date on some of them. They were a few decades old. She was confused. She looked at the men standing
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Chapter 56 “Okay, so what are you really telling us?” The Captain asked. “You said the people made you feel uncomfortable. That is that, okay, but that doesn’t give us any real criminal activity.” “Like I said in the beginning. Something isn’t right there, and I knew that it is not enough, but I had to do something to let you know that something isn’t right there.” Micha said. “I still don’t know how people go missing on that farm.” The quiet man asked who had been looking between the two people and the board that was on the side of the room. “Farms have so many ways for people to die or go missing. You know I never really thought of it before.” Sophia said. She looked at the men. “I mean, the tools we have for the animal care is one thing. We have everything normally on site. We have some things as well, like poison for the rodents and bugs. We have so many things that could hold and treat animals as well. Holding pens,
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