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  THE BOSTON DEBUTANTE

  The Debutante series VOL.1

  By William Roach

  Copyright 2009-2010 by William Roach All rights reserved.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any Resemblance to actual events, locals, organizations, or Persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  About the Author

  I love writing romance novels. My favorite ones are historical. England and Scotland have always fascinated me. I was born Scot-Irish, English and German, so it is only natural I would be interested in my ancestors and how they lived. I especially like reading the love stories of the aristocracy. I always liked the way people of the Regency and Victorian era lived so that is where I have decided to base my stories.

  I was born in South Carolina and grew up in Florida. I have always been able to lay in bed at night and dream up stories so I decided I would start writing some of them down.

  I sat down Sunday after the release of my latest book on Amazon and started telling my daughter some of the story of Buck, Jill and witches, goddesses and werewolves. The whole time I was telling the story my wife and daughter were staring at me. When I finished my daughter asked, "How do you come up with all this stuff? My granddaughter chimed in and asked me to tell another story. I don't know where these stories come from. They just come out.

  When I was a kid I didn't have any friends close by to play with so I made up my own games. I was always the hero cowboy. With my trusty broom handle between my legs I would run across the yard chasing the bad guys. It usually ended in a fight when I caught the bad guy.

  Sometime I would be a super hero and chase bad guys with my cape tied around my neck (bath towel) and my bathing suit.

  I made a crate into a space ship and tried to get my brother to pick me up in it and throw it to the moon. I always thought of him as the strongest man in the world. And my daughter wonders where I get these stories from.

  I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I have enjoyed writing them.

  CONTENTS

  PROLOGUE The Beginning

  CHAPTER I Macy’s Aunt talks her into coming to Texas for a visit.

  CHAPTER II Macy arrives in town.

  CHAPTER III Macy and Turk don’t hit it off so well.

  CHAPTER IV They ride out on the range to mend some fences.

  CHAPTER V Storm brews in the West and in Turk and Macy.

  CHAPTER VI Turk falls head over heels in love with Macy.

  CHAPTER VII Macy returns to Boston after a huge fight.

  CHAPTER VIII Macy gives in and decides to stay.

  CHAPTER XIV Turk proposes Marriage

  PROLOGUE

  The Beginning

  Turk (Theodore Jackson) is a hardcore cowboy. His adoptive mother raised him on a ranch and he learned everything there is to know about running a ranch. His parents were killed when he was a baby.

  Turk got into a lot of fights in school. He tended to be the champion of the guys that were picked on by the bullies. Sometimes Maude didn’t know if she was going to survive raising him and her daughter. Most of the time Megan behaved herself. It was only when she lost her temper that everybody gave her plenty of space. Even Turk tried to stay clear of her when she was mad.

  After Turk was out of school he got in a lot fights in bars but usually it was started by someone else. The only time he started it was when someone messed with his sister. He felt like it was his duty to protect Megan even though she could handle herself.

  Turk is not the kind of guy that takes any lip off of anyone, nor should he. He stands six feet four inches tall with broad shoulders and a small waist. He has light blondish brown hair that hangs in his eyes when he has his hat off. He has steel blue eyes that could pear right thru you.

  His sister Megan is almost as bad as she is beautiful. She single handedly busted up a bar when she caught the guy she was going with cheating on her.

  She graduated from high school three years ago. She was the head cheerleader and all the football players had tried to date her but she picked and chose the ones she wanted to date.

  She is a free spirit and goes after what she wants in life. She is a feisty little blonde that grew up around all boys on the ranch so she had to learn to fight at a young age just for survival. When her brother got with his friends she was the common target of their aggression. Being the only girl made her strong.

  Megan was the only child her mother ever had so when her mother found out about Turk she adopted him right away. She was going to need a good man on the ranch one of these days to run things and she was going to train him from a small child.

  At one time Turk and his sister or should I say stepsister had a thing going. Growing up together they thought they were madly in love with each other for a while. Maude had to keep a close eye on them to be sure there wasn’t going to be any little Turks and Megan’s running around on the ranch.

  It worked out that Megan started looking at Turk more as a big brother than a love interest. Their love interest faded into a brother sister relationship.

  Megan and Turk were inseparable as kids. If a girl ever hurt him, Megan would end up making sure the girl never hurt anyone else. She would meet the girl in an out of the way place and whip her butt.

  Turk was the same way about men in Megan’s life. It finally got to the place that boys didn’t want to go out with Megan because of their fear of Turk and the girls didn’t want to go out with Turk because of Megan.

  Turk was a big man. He could hurt a person just by looking at them. He always was bigger than the other boys in his age group. He played football in high school and went on to play in college.

  Their mother Miss. Maude as she is called by the people who knows her runs the ranch with an iron fist. She is a very headstrong woman that had to take over running the ranch and raising her kids after her husband died.

  Before Turk’s adoptive father passed away he taught Turk everything there was to know about running a ranch.

  Turk was good at what he did and he had acquired a group of the best ranch hands around that part of the country to help.

  Macy Collins was born into a well to do family in Boston. She was taught at an early age to dress and act more like an adult then a child the age she was. Her family was old money so she was right up in the top of the Boston society.

  She attended Private school with her parent’s friend’s kids where she was taught proper etiquette. Then when she got to High School she talked her parents into letting her go to a public High School so she could precipitate in school functions.

  She played her part well as the little rich kid spoiled and self-centered. She was given everything she desired by her parents.

  She was always dressed in the finest clothes that could be bought. Her hair was brown and curly. Her parents liked it long so they kept it cut about two inches below her shoulders. They kept it hanging lightly over her shoulders covering most of her shoulders.

  Macy didn’t date till her later teen years. The boys she did date should feel privileged to be able to go out with her she thought.

  She only had one girl that she allowed to be her friend.

  Her friend’s family was equal to her family in stature and social structure.

  Her name was Beth and she looked a lot like Macy. They were both about the same height and build. In fact if you saw one of them from behind it would be hard to tell which one it was. They even wore their hair just alike.

  Macy’s parents were killed in a plane crash recently and she
was taking it hard. She had been thrown into the world of finance. Fortunately her father had taught her the financial business at a young age and she knew her parents finances inside and out.

  As soon as she took over she made sure everyone connected to the business knew she was in charge and they would be taking orders from her.

  CHAPTER I

  Macy woke from a sound sleep. After tossing and turning most of the night sleep finally came to her. Since her parents deaths she was having a hard time living in their house.

  Even though she had gotten rid of most of her parents unimportant things every once in a while she would run across something that belonged to one of them. When she did she would break down.

  That’s what happened last night. She was wiping down a cabinet in the bathroom when she found a ring her mother had lost a few years ago. It was very sentimental to her mother because it had belonged to her mother.

  Macy went to her country club one day to get out of her lonely house and get her mind off her parents.

  She had just finished a game of tennis with her instructor when her cell phone rang. It was her Aunt Maude from Texas. Maude Jackson was her Mother’s sister.

  She wiped her sweat from her brow with her towel. Then she answered the phone.

  “Macy I am so glad to catch you. How are things for you in Boston?”

  “I have been having it kind of rough Aunt Maude. All my friends are at work and I’m stuck in that big house all by myself all day. My parent’s memory haunts me. I found a ring of mama’s last night and it destroyed me. I can’t get any rest at night.”

  “Well, Megan and I were talking. We want you to come out here for a while and see how you like it. It will give you a chance to get away from there and it will give us a chance to get reacquainted. I haven’t seen you in such a long time and you have never met Megan. Maude wasn’t able to go to Macy’s parent’s funeral because she couldn’t leave the ranch.

  Megan wants a young person more her age to talk to so please come out and visit want you?”

  Macy thought for a few minutes.

  “I don’t know if I can leave the Corporation long enough to come out there or not. We are in the middle of making some purchases.”

  “Macy you need to get away from that every once in a while or it’s going to drive you crazy.”

  Macy hadn’t seen her aunt since she was small. Macy wanted a change of scenery for a while and she thought she might like going to the ranch and get away from the tension of Boston. She really wanted to go someplace and set down in some peaceful place and prop her feet up.

  She thought the change might help her get her mind off her parents and she could get some rest.

  After thinking about it for a couple minutes she agreed to go there if she could leave the financial business to her CEO’s for a while. Really they ran the business anyway. Macy was just a token board chairman.

  She had never been to Texas so she wanted to go just to see what it was like.

  “Aunt Maude I think I will come out to see you I’ll call you back as soon as I have made some travel arrangements and check to see if my people can do without me for a little while. I have to get my nails done, get my hair done, and my facial before I leave. I look like a hag right now.”

  “Macy you don’t have to get all gussied up to come out here. We live simple out here.”

  “Aunt Maude I have to look decent to travel commercial transportation. My company jet is tied up right now.”

  “We have an offer for you when you get here but, we can talk more about it when you arrive.”

  “What kind of an offer?”

  “I’ll discuss it with you when you get here.”

  “Well I will let you go so I can give the airline a call and see when I can get a ticket. I’ll call you and let you know when I will fly in.”

  Macy hung up and went to take a shower before she met Michael for diner. Michael was her part time boyfriend. Her parents had more or less chosen him for her. His parents were in their social click and they had made an agreement that they would be married when they were ready.

  Macy spent all the time she could at the country club. She loved to golf and play tennis. She worked out in their gym almost every day and you could tell it when you looked at her. Macy didn’t have any fat on her. In fact even her legs were trim.

  Beth loved going to the Club and exercising with Macy. She wanted to make sure she stayed as fit as Macy so she could continue to look like her. This was good for Beth for it forced her to watch what she ate. She supposed that if one day Macy got fat she would to.

  Sometimes when Beth had time she would meet Macy there and play a round of golf.

  Beth was the one friend she could depend on to keep her mind off her problems. She had a funny personality and she could make Macy laugh when she was down.

  The young guys really liked it when the two of them played tennis together. When the two of them were out on the court it always drew a crowd of the young men. Occasionally older men would watch too when their wives weren’t with them. They always wore their white tennis outfits with the short skirts which never failed to draw crowds of bachelors. Any one of them would die for the chance of taking either one of them out.

  Michael planned to meet Macy at the country club and she was looking forward to telling him about her trip to Texas.

  She had been going with Michael for some time but they hadn’t really gotten serious in their relationship.

  He was from another upper class family in Boston. Never having to worry about anything he was as spoiled as Macy was. He drove a BMW sports car and you very seldom saw him without the top down and his blonde hair blowing in the breeze. He always had on a white tennis outfit with his sweater tied around his neck. He thought he was God’s gift to women.

  He had given her the indication several times that he wanted to take their relationship to a higher level but he had never committed.

  Macy had made up her mind that she wasn’t going to get serious till he got his Law Practice set up. She liked him some days and other days she just thought he was shallow and self-centered.

  At dinner she told Michael of her plans to go to visit her Aunt in Texas for a while.

  He reluctantly agreed that it would be best for her.

  He knew she was having a hard time living in that big house alone. He had even suggested she have one of her friends move in with her.

  He also suggested she get a housekeeper to keep the house up.

  The house was worth about thirteen million dollars and it was starting to show the like of care.

  Macy knew nothing about keeping the house up and Michael knew she needed someone to take care of some of the repairs.

  He even suggested she sell the house and get an apartment. Macy found every excuse she could for not selling the house.

  She got a reservation to fly out early the next morning.

  From Dallas she had to catch a train to the small town near her aunt’s ranch.

  As soon as everything was confirmed she called her aunt back and told her the schedule.

  The next morning Miss Maude sat at the breakfast with Turk and Megan while they ate.

  “Kids I have something to tell you.”

  “Mom, don’t call us kids, we are grown adults.”

  She looked at Turk and laughed.

  “Turk you like a long way being grown up. You will always be kids to me.

  Megan you remember we talked one day about Macy, your cousin that lives in Boston.

  Megan shook her head.

  “Yes I remember us talking about her. You told me all about how she always got everything she ever wanted, why?”

  “She is coming out to visit us? I called and talked to her for a long time yesterday. She is really having a rough time getting over her parents deaths. After I practically begged her she finally agreed to come out here to visit.

  Megan you told me you weren’t interested in the ranch and she would be a good one to take ove
r it. She has a good business head because she runs a multimillion corporation.

  She is going to be in today around noon on the train from Dallas.

  Turk I want you to ride into town and meet her.

  It is going to take a little while to get a buggy there to pick her up and I don’t want her to be in town alone. I want you to keep her company till Roy gets there with the buggy.”

  “Ok I guess I can get away long enough to ride into town. Why can’t I drive the truck, it would be easier?”

  “No Turk I want her to experience the west first hand.”

  “Mom you are going to run her off before she gets here.”

  “No I won’t. When she sees you she will want to stay.”

  “Mom, don’t say things like that. How will I know what she looks like?”

  “Don’t worry she will be easy to recognize. She will be the prettiest girl at the train station about your age and looks like she doesn’t belong out here.

  More than likely she will be dressed in something like they wear in the big city; you know heels and probably a dress or business looking suit.

  The last time I saw her she was small so I don’t know how she looks now.”

  “Well if she doesn’t look like she belongs here she probably doesn’t. The west is no place for a city girl”

  “Well young man you better be respectful to her. She has had a rough time of it and I think it is up to us to show her a little compassion. We have to make her feel like she is with family. I want you to make her feel like she belongs here and Megan can make sure she dresses like one of us.

  She doesn’t know anything about the west so we are going to have to see to it she feels welcome so I want both of you to be on your best behavior around her. She has never been around people like us and you know how that can be.”

  Megan was excited that finally she would have another young person she could talk to and hang around with. Macy is about twenty-six but Megan didn’t mind.

  Megan didn’t have a chance to go into town very often to hang around the friends that she went to school with. She spent most of her time working on the ranch.