The piece of oak split beneath the satisfying show of strength. He’d been married to Abby for three weeks now, and November was more than a week old, but the tactics he’d decided to utilize in his marriage weren’t working out as planned, or as he’d expected. After realizing there was no real future for him and Abby, he’d decided to go about his life as he always had and treat her and her children as he had Emily—with polite civility. He’d count on them to hold up their side of the bargain while he did the same. That was the plan, but somehow it wasn’t working out as he’d imagined. They’d fallen into a routine, and inevitably, as he should have known it would, he saw their lives meshing in dozens of ways that demanded personal interaction. Abby kept the house clean and tidy. She cooked the meals and cared for the children, teaching Ben spelling and numbers and reading. Though he usually escaped to his study after dinner, more than once, Caleb had heard her reading to Ben from books on history and farming principles and then explaining what she read.
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