A Rancher's Love by Capri Montgomery

you’re fertile?”
    “Never thought about it,” she admitted.
    “I think we need to have a talk,” he pulled back and looked at her tear stained cheek.
    “No. I can just look it up online. You can find anything on the Internet you know. If it’s that important to you that I know I’ll look it up.”
    “Don’t you want to know?”
    She shrugged. “My mother always said it wasn’t important.”
    “Well what the hell did she think was important?”
    “When I was seventeen she taught me how to calculate child support and alimony payments based on the number of children and the years in a marriage. She said that it was important to do a full cost 56

    A Rancher’s Love ~ Capri Montgomery analysis otherwise she would have ended up with the short end of the stick. I told her I didn’t want kids or alimony payments.”
    “And what did she say?”
    “She told me to make sure I used a condom. So I always made sure that Darin and I had condoms.
    Danny had used them anyway. Darin took some work to ensure regular use.”
    He shook his head. “Don’t take this the wrong way, Zoe, but I hate your mother.”
    “You don’t even know her yet.”
    “I know enough,” he mumbled. “You are so wise in some ways, and so…”
    “Stupid,” she filled in the blank, but it wasn’t with the right words—not his words anyway.
    “Innocent,” he said. “You’re so innocent in other ways. I would have never expected that of a woman your age.”
    “Deficient,” she sighed. “I know I don’t live up to the worldly knowledge that some people have, but…
    He took her hand in his. “You’re not deficient. You’re innocent in some things, and in need of schooling in others. It happens. We’ll work on it. You need to know more about your body than you do.”
    “I don’t know if you noticed, but I know my body.”
    “Not just what pleasures it,” he winked. “You need to know everything about how you’re put together, and how everything works.”
    “I had anatomy in high school. I know what my parts are,” she snorted. “I’m not that stupid.”
    He chuckled. “I never said you were. What I meant to say is that you need to learn more about your reproductive cycle.”
    “Oh, I never really thought about it. I was always so busy with everything else. Maybe I should order a book or something. It will give me something to do while you’re out there working. Jasper is going to kill me if I keep trying to help her.”
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    “She might,” he agreed. “Now, do you have any questions for me? Is there anything I can help you learn?”
    “No,” she bit out the words so quickly the force of her refusal almost knocked him off balance. “I’m not going to talk to a man about my body.”
    “Why not?”
    “Because women aren’t supposed to do that.”
    “Why not?”
    “Because…well…I don’t know actually. It’s just something the health teacher said in class at school, that we weren’t supposed to talk to boys about our body and they weren’t supposed to talk to us about their body.”
    “Gotta love the education system,” sarcasm laced his tone.
    “I went to an all girl religious prep school. Sex was like a four letter word in that place,” she laughed. She started laughing harder, prompting him to wonder what she was thinking about. He didn’t have to wonder for long. “I had four really close girlfriends,” she nodded while holding up four fingers. “Julie, Danica, Michelle and Kristen. We were twelve…yeah, twelve, and I had already had my period. I started at nine, but Danica had just gotten hers. Fortunately I knew about keeping that area clean and together so I told her about it, but,” she started laughing again. “We were all so curious about our bodies. I had bigger boobs then,” she gestured to her smaller breasts. “But Kristen’s were huge, I mean huge. For a twelve year old,”
    she chuckled. “So we would get together in one of the lower