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Roark or Beckett that this arrangement was going to be as uncomplicated as they assured her it would be.
    “Come on…Trent should have the fire going by now, let’s go roast marshmallows.” He grinned.

Chapter 4
    Drink in hand Beckett headed out to his balcony that overlooked the valley below. He had stayed long enough for his parents to hash out the details of their trip to Alabama. Beckett would go down with Ethan and his parents at the beginning of the week while Trent and Justin took care of the Harrison building demolition. Once the schedule was worked out with the electrician and the plumbers Trent and Justin would join them by the end of the week. By then Ethan and Roark would have had a good look at the financial status of the company and Beckett would have a list of damage control that needed to be done. During the two weeks between the announcement party and the actual wedding, Beckett would put in his appearances with his future bride while his mother searched out a house for his new bride to live in. The rest of the men in the family would begin assimilating into their roles within the company. After the wedding Beckett, Ethan and his parents would stay on while Trent and Justin flew back to Montana to oversee the Harrison building.
    Beckett thought about the upcoming wedding and his mind returned to another face . One from his past, the only one he had ever loved and the one he had planned to spend the rest of his life with. Lachelle Grainger’s family moved to town after her mother’s death from a skiing accident in Colorado. She was a freshman and he was a junior when they first met in the office of their high school. Once again he was waiting to see the dean for an incident during lab class. He and his friend Josh Turner had been secretly working on a type of explosive when it accidently went off starting a small fire that cause an evacuation of the school. Lachelle had walked through that door and it had been love at first sight. When she sat next to him waiting to see a guidance counselor he struck up a conversation. In a town of less than 800 people where everyone knew everyone else since birth any one new, especially a pretty female was fresh meat on the market for every guy in school. He found her shy but beneath that timid first impression he sensed a quick wit and sense of adventure. He hadn’t been wrong and by that Friday they had their first date where he took her rock climbing behind his parent’s home. He had been harassed by both Trent and Justin for weeks on his luck for meeting Lachelle first. Each insisted had she been swimming freely in the stream they each would have hooked her first. By the end of the month they were a couple and once she met his family she became a permanent fixture at their home.
    His mom took her under her wing giving her the mothering advice she desperately needed. Her father was never home always traveling on business and her older brother was away at college. For the next two years they dated and began to talk of a future together. Beckett would graduate in the spring and go away to college. She would finish high school and once she graduated they planned on getting married. He had even given her a promise ring which he purchased from his salary earned over the summer at his father ’s construction company. Everyone had always said they were the perfect couple with his tall dark looks and her small blonde frame. Despite the fact she was only a sophomore she was nominated with him as the cutest couple his senior year. He was the star quarterback and she was the only sophomore on the varsity cheerleader squad. At the beginning of his senior year she began to start bruising easily and was tired a lot. On Christmas Eve she was diagnosed with leukemia and began to go downhill fast. Over the next few months she went through a barrage of treatments but nothing stopped the disease from ravaging her body. Her father even took her away to try out experimental treatments