All 9 Children Nobody Wanted Found a Father When a Cowboy Said: They’re Mine Now Forever!

Chapter 2

Mr. Greeley was not a cruel man. Elias saw that right away, and later he would think it was a shame, because it would have been easier on everyone if the county agent had been a monster. Instead he was a tired man with ink stains on his fingers and a ledger under his arm and entirely too much to do. He looked at the nine children the way a man looks at a problem he has not been given the tools to solve, and the weight of it showed in the slump of his shoulders.

“Mr. Hart, is it?” he said, squinting through the rain. “If you’ve business with the county, it’ll have to wait. I’ve got these children to settle before the coach leaves.”

“I’m not here on business,” Elias said.