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Prologue
âNo.â
Stunned, Garrett White Eagle stared at his older brother, Jackson. Heâd just checked his email and when he read the notification from the editor in chief of a well-known magazine, asking to do an in-depth article on the work he and his brother were doing at the Healing Ranch, he thought that Jackson would be as excited about it as he was.
Obviously not.
This was going to take some work on his part, Garrett decided.
âNo?â he repeated incredulously. âWhat do you mean, no?â
Jackson rose from behind the scarred, second-hand desk heâd rescued from being turned into kindling half a dozen years ago. He had a full day ahead of him at the ranch and heâd already wasted enough time with the stack of unpaid bills that seemed to be breeding on his desk. Apparently, moving them from one pile to another didnât diminish their number or get them paid off any sooner.
He couldnât think about them right now. The boys were waiting for him at the corral. The bunkhouse was almost filled to capacity and every teen currently staying at the ranch required individual care. Heâd sworn when he took all this on that nothing short of that would suffice and he had meant it. But it did get hard to live up to at times.
âNo,â Jackson repeated. âItâs a simple enough word to grasp.â The corners of his mouth curved just the slightest bit as he glanced toward his younger brother. âEven you, with your limited education, should be able to figure out its meaning.â
âLook, I get it. Youâre not into social media. But Iâm not asking you to get on Twitter, or Facebook, or any of the other modern innovations you keep insisting on staying clear of. Iâm not even asking you to use smoke signals, like our ancestors. But to turn your back on a magazine interview is positively criminal,â Garrett accused. âWestern Times is a big-time magazine,â he emphasized, as if the increased volume would somehow get his brother to agree. This was an opportunity and he wasnât about to give up until he made Jackson see the light. He had his work cut out for him, seeing as Jackson could bring new meaning to the word stubborn when he wanted to.
Jackson turned around for a split second, looking his brother in the eye and enunciating every word slowly. âI canât make time for it.â
âDo you have time to make money?â Garrett asked. âHow about that? Do you have time to do that?â
Jackson stifled an impatient sigh. âWhat are you talking about? Theyâre not paying us for the interview.â
âNo, but doing the interview could really pay off in the long run.â Garrett picked up his pace to keep up with Jackson.
Just like when we were younger,he couldnât help remembering. Back then, heâd worshipped Jackson, who was five years his senior. Technically, Jackson was his half brother. They shared a father who wasnât interested in either of them. Ben White Eagle walked out on them just the way Jacksonâs mother had walked out on him several years before that. It was his own mother who was left with the task of raising both of them.
Sylvia White Eagle was a warm, loving woman who more than had her hands filled with a very hostile, rebellious Jackson. Jackson was always rushing off to be with his friends, friends who were interested in grabbing what life hadnât given them. Friends who kept getting him into more and more trouble.
Desperate, Sylvia had turned to Sam, her ex-husbandâs brother, and Sam had taken Jackson in hand, putting him to work on his ranch. It was there that Jackson got his life back.