After making sure the boys were occupied when lunch was over, she headed for the main building. It was the perfect time to look over the boys’ files and get to know their backgrounds and the reasons they were living at the ranch. At the door to the office, she pulled out the set of keys Mac had given her. It took two of the keys to get her into the inner office where she found the file cabinet, and she unlocked that with the last of the keys on the ring. Settling on the chair at the small desk, she opened the first file and started reading. There were moments when she wanted to cry over what she read. In spite of her mother being overprotective and unwilling to share information about the past, her childhood had been full of wonderful memories, and she’d always felt loved by her mother and grandmother. That hadn’t been the case for some of the boys. The older ones, Benito and Leon, were at the ranch under judges’ orders. Both had been involved in petty thefts of some kind, in addition to vandalism, but she suspected even that was based on poor home lives.
