✅️Country Rancher Kayce Dutton

Dutton Life Goes On

"Carter, there's always a choice here. I - I can talk to my husband and make him see that there can be another way." He picked his tan hat up from the dust sitting on his head giving me the best brave look he could. "I'll do it Mrs. Dutton....I'll take the brand for Bree."

It had been a few weeks since Kayce and Carter had their little fight in the middle of the ranch. Walking down the wooden stairs I saw Kayce sitting on the couch in the living room slowly drinking from a beer bottle from the kitchen. "So are we just not going to talk about getting that boy off the ranch. Because I don't understand why you are still defending him."

"I am defending him because he is choosing to stay. He is choosing to be there for her, Kayce. Most guys when they get their girlfriend pregnant when they are a teenager don't stick around." Crossing my arms over my chest I leaned against the stone fireplace.

Kayce sent me a glare rolling his eyes at me. Our first long standing fight between one another was dealing with Monica until she broke it off with him not being able to accept his lifestyle. "I told you how that boy can earn my trust and make me believe in his loyalty."

"You're forcing him to take the brand. Do you not see that by doing that you are turning into the man your father used to be. I thought you didn't want to be like that." I spat stomping up to be in his face.

Kayce jumped up from the couch getting in my face where we were both death glaring at the other. His brown eyes never broke away from mine where I could see the seriousness yet regret remaining there too. "I am not going to do what my father did. But he doesn't deserve our daughter. He...he isn't good enough for her!"

"That's what this is really about isn't it, Kayce?" Parting my mouth open I suck in a breath finally realizing that he was being a natural protective father. He repeatedly told me that he didn't want her growing up but now he truly meant it. "You're terrified that she will get her heart broken and as her father you feel responsible for her happiness. But we can't control who she loves and how her life goes-"

He cuts me off short, crossing his arms over his chest. "I sure as hell can so long as she lives underneath my roof and on this ranch!"

"Kayc, come on you have to believe what I am saying here. Yes we are her parents but we have to add the truth that she will grow up. She will become a mother like I am and she will have her own children. That's how life goes on. That is how the legacy of this ranch and everything we fight for goes on." Grasping his hands in mine I unfolded his arm's making him look me in the eye.

He sighed heavily, resting his forehead against mine releasing some breaths. Closing my eyes I wanted to freeze time here and now. Keep our chin all the same age and keep the ranch just how it is. So that there wouldn't be any more changes. The wooden stairs creaked making us pull slightly apart seeing Bree coming down. "Mom. Dad, I have a doctor's appointment today. Can you guys drive me and Carter?"

"Uh sure sweetie. I'll grab my coat and keys." I broke away from my husband heading up the stairs to go find Tate and ask him to babysit the twins until we got back. Walking down the hallway I halted in my tracks seeing a bunch of papers scattered on my daughter's bed. Entering her room I picked one of them up reading the dates that were all linked to 1923 and were written by a woman named Cara. Unfolding one of the letters I mumbled something under my breath one last sentence there. "Dying is the most alive you will ever feel, Spencer Dutton."

Footsteps came down the hall where I glanced over my shoulder seeing Bree leaning against the doorway. "Mom, are you coming? Dad says he will get the truck ready."

"Bree, where did you find these letters at? I've never seen them before and I mean the dates are so old." Holding up the letter in my hands I showed it to her, moving some of the others counting a lot of them. I hadn't studied the family tree that much even though I had named my second daughter Elsa. It was certainly complicated as most family trees are.

Bree entered the room locking gaze with me where I could see that her stomach was getting bigger where we could hopefully learn the gender considering she told me she was pregnant when she was into her pregnancy by a month or two. "I got bored so I went searching around in grandpa John's room. I found them hidden away in his closet so I decided to read them. Please don't be mad. I know I shouldn't go to his room without permission."

"You're not in trouble this time but don't do it again, get it. Now we should go, otherwise we will be late to the appointment." She nodded leaving the room before I turned back towards the bed finding the bag that the letters were in. Quickly going downstairs I put them away in our bedroom needing to read them later tonight.

The drive to the hospital was quiet and intense where none of us dared to utter a word. Closing the passenger door Carter and Bree walked side by side with him wearing his tan cowboy hat. I was wearing my black one with the golden clip and Kayce had on his normal hat opening the front door for us. The nurse got us into the doctor's room. "Well I am surprised to see you back so soon Mr and Mrs. Dutton. I would have thought after the twins you two would take a break."

"Well you see the thing is we're not pregnant doctor. This time it's..." I trailed off sending my daughter a look while she sat on the table playing with her hands before she gave me a small head nod. "Our eldest is pregnant, Bree."

The doctor had to blink a few times before he got everything set up so she was laying on the table. Carter and Kayce were asked to wait outside leaving me alone with my daughter. The doctor put the cream on her stomach showing the video on the screen. "Then I suppose congratulations are in order. And according to this I should tell the gender how far along you are. Would you like to know, Bree?"

"Mom..." She lifted her head up grabbing my hand in hers.

Squeezing it back I move to the door telling the boys to come back inside so that they could hear at the same time. "It is completely your choice, Little B."

"The gender of your baby should be a boy." The doctor declared looking between Kayce and I then it shifted down to Carter and Bree. The Dutton name would always keep growing.

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