Free Blinding Trust by Jennifer Foor Page A

Colt. This means a lot. I know I’m around people everyday, but it gets so lonely. I don’t have kids, or anyone that I can call family, except for Noah. I just want the chance.
    I’ll talk to you in a month or so, Zeke.
    I didn’t wait for him to reply before I hung up.
    I covered my face in my hands and thought about my wife. She wasn’t going to like this one bit.
    Later that night, after Savanna had made dinner and we’d gotten the kids to bed, I climbed into bed next to her. She was reading, like she did every night. I kissed her on the shoulder and laid my head against her smooth skin. “I’m sorry for bein’ a jerk.”
    She never looked away from her book. “You should be.”
    I smiled, knowing she was literally giving me the cold shoulder. “I need to talk to you about somethin’.” I grabbed the Kindle out of her hand and finally got her attention. “It’s important, darlin’.”
    She folded her hands and cocked her eyebrow. “Did you buy something?”
    We had an agreement about buying major things without telling each other first. “No!”
    “Is it good or bad, because I don’t feel like having anymore bad news today, Colt. I know you think this is some phase, but it doesn’t hurt me any less.”
    I put my hand over hers. “I need you to hear me out, Savanna.”
    She shook her head. “Oh God! It’s bad!”
    “Would you just calm down and let me talk?”
    She threw her hands up. “Fine! Just tell me.”
    “You already know that I had a piss poor day, but you only know half of why that was.” I got her attention. She turned and looked right into my eyes. “It seems that our visitors last night weren’t happy with how things went. Zeke took it upon himself to contact his lawyer about having visitation rights.”
    Savanna jumped off the bed like it was on fire. “Are you shitting me?”
    “I’m not!” I laughed at her using that word. She rarely cursed. “Keep your voice down so we don’t wake up the kids.”
    She got back in bed and got close enough so we didn’t have to talk loud. “How do you know he called his lawyer. Did he call and threaten you about it?”
    “No. His lawyer called me, when I was dealing with the bullshit in the chicken houses.”
    Her eyes were huge and I could tell that she was scared. “What happened ?”
    “He was goin’ on and on about Zeke bein’ legally entitled to get to know Noah. I wasn’t listenin’ that well, on account of bein’ so damn mad about it. I gave him Mike’s number and hung up.”
    She readjusted herself. “So, that’s it? Did you call Mike and ask him if he heard anything? Is Zeke going to try to take Noah away from us? Colt, I can’t lose him.”
    I grabbed at her hands again, squeezing them inside of mine. “Mike called me.” I hesitated telling her what Mike gave as advice. She wasn’t going to be happy. In fact, I saw her firing my family’s long term attorney over it. “Before you freak out, just listen to what I have to say.”
    “You’re scaring me, Colt.”
    “We’re goin’ to have to let Zeke get to know Noah. There’s no way around it, without things gettin’ real ugly.” I hated saying it out loud. Her face went from concerned to stunned in a matter of seconds.
    “No judge will let that happen.”
    “Mike said that with Zeke’s money and who he knows, there’s a chance things would get ugly and we would lose. I don’t want Noah dragged through magazines. I don’t want him bein’ some paparazzi’s story.”
    “What are you saying? ”
    “I talked to Zeke tonight on the phone. He’s agreed to drop everything if I allow Noah to come see him at his house, once his tour is over.”
    “That is not happening, Colt! Over my dead body am I going to put our son on a plane and just let him go.”
    I appreciated how devoted she was. “He ain’t goin’ alone. I’m goin’ with him.”
    “You have to run the ranch. You can’t just leave. If it has to be done, I will go.”
    “Savanna, I love you