Chapter 454 - Gifts For Everyone and Contract of Transfer

Joseph’s eyes lit up and he threw the book onto the couch before hugging the football. “Oh, it’s beautiful.”

Luke was amused. “A beautiful sorceress can’t compare with a football? Watch out. You might not get a girlfriend in the future.”

“I can find a girlfriend anytime. It’s easy.” Beyond this hurried reply, Joseph had no time to bother with Luke as he played with the football excitedly.

Half an hour later, the two still excited kids were summoned to dinner, but they looked upstairs every now and then.

Upstairs was where their new treasures were kept — in their bedrooms.

Sadly, it was too late in the day for Claire to show off her glamorous and fashionable watches to her friends, and Joseph couldn’t play with the football outside either.

Catherine was the calmest of them all. When Claire babbled about Luke’s gifts for her, she simply smiled and told her daughter to be careful not to spray the bread she was eating over the table.

But Robert wasn’t here. He was watching football at a colleague’s place.

With Luke working in another city, Claire about to graduate high school and Joseph in primary school, life had relaxed a lot for Robert and Catherine.

While Luke never directly sent money home, he would send back some things every now and then, from clothes to practical household appliances, or shoes and hats to makeup. Robert and Catherine had never been very much into shopping in the first place. With the things Luke sent them, they barely needed to spend a dime anymore.

The money which they had been saving for Luke’s college fund was now Claire’s, so Robert didn’t have to try as hard to save money anymore and his days were a lot more relaxed.

As for Joseph? He was only six. Robert had a decade or so to save up a college fund for him.

Since his days were more relaxed, Robert spent more time watching football at his colleague’s place.

Even Catherine had picked up the art tools which she had long abandoned and would every now and then do an oil painting, which had been her biggest love in the past.

While she was a middle school biology teacher, she had the heart of an artist.

After dinner, Luke and Catherine chatted as they washed the dishes in the kitchen.

Hearing what Luke had to say, Catherine frowned. “You need to talk to Robert about that.”

Luke rolled his eyes. “With his bad temper, he’ll definitely yell at me if I tell him.”

Catherine knew that was true, but she still shook her head. “This is a business you set up and you should run it. There’s no need to give it to us.”

Luke sighed. “Nobody knows what will happen. You and Robert are the only people that I can trust. For various reasons, I can’t leave that thing under my name.”

“…Are you in danger?” Catherine asked worriedly.

Luke smiled. “It’s not that serious. It’s just that some people might use petty tricks to become a bother. I’m just taking precautions.”

He talked to Catherine in the kitchen for a long time as he listed the reasons he had considered in advance and explained them in detail. Finally, she nodded reluctantly.

After Catherine signed the contract which Luke took out, his shares in the gold mine company in Boom Town, Arizona were transferred to Catherine and Robert.

In the future, Luke would only be able to transfer funds from the company via online accounts and he wouldn’t be the company proprietor anymore.

If anything happened to him, the gold mine company would belong to Robert and Catherine.

Of course, that wasn’t a future that Luke wanted to see, not because he was unwilling to let go of the dividends from the gold mine, but because he wanted to live a long and healthy life.

He didn’t tell Robert because Robert was too cantankerous.

If Luke offered his shares in the company to Robert, that guy would absolutely blow his top.

Luke surmised it wasn’t that Robert never had the chance to make a fortune, but that he never wanted to.

Otherwise, with Robert’s connections, like Director Thomas in Houston, he could’ve made a truckload of money.

Even before that, Robert’s experiences when he served overseas for years couldn’t be that simple.

There was no way Luke would believe that this tough man never had the opportunity to make some dirty money.

Robert probably hated that sort of life and didn’t want that type of money on his conscience, which was why he returned to Shackelford as a sheriff.

Living expenses here weren’t costly, and neither he nor Catherine were spendthrifts, so their life wasn’t hard.

Now, without needing to raise three kids at the same time and save up college funds for both Luke and Claire, their life was even easier.

When the football was over, Robert went home in high spirits.

The Dallas Cowboys must’ve won the game today.

When Robert came in, he didn’t stink of alcohol.

He was a moderate drinker; he only had beer and never overdid it.

When he came in, he put down his key and asked, “Honey, who’s here?”

Naturally, he had seen Luke’s rental car that was parked outside.

Luke turned his head from where he was sitting on the couch. “Surprise, Robert!”

Stunned, Robert asked with wide open eyes, “Why are you here, brat? Don’t tell me LAPD kicked you out?”

Both Catherine and Luke rolled their eyes.

This guy’s mouth was always rotten when he was with Luke.

Of course, Luke wasn’t any nicer as he instantly fired back, “Look at you, it’s as if the Dallas Cowboys finally beat the Green Bay Packers today!”

“They will, sooner or later,” Robert retorted subconsciously.

Then, after a brief silence, both of them laughed.

This every day bickering was exactly the same as half a year ago. In the living room, everyone talked about what had been happening lately.

Luke and Catherine talked over the phone every couple of days, mostly before Catherine went to bed at night. Robert would also chime in occasionally, so they knew what was going on with each other.

It was just that before this, they never talked about trifles like how the town had changed, or how Claire and Joseph were doing at school.

This dreadful topic which the three adults were discussing quickly scared off the two little guys.

The three of them laughed soundlessly as they watched the two little guys go upstairs to sleep.

Only then did Luke mention Selina’s birthday, and he asked Catherine to help out the next day.

Robert was just a rough man who couldn’t carry out this sort of delicate task.

After listening to Luke, Robert looked at him suspiciously. “You’re not planning a surprise proposal for Selina, are you?”

Catherine patted Robert with a smile. “What are you thinking? He’s only eighteen.”

Robert patted his forehead. “I forgot. No, wait, what if he knocked someone up? …Fine, I was wrong, honey.”

This coarse man who had made a coarse remark got hit gently by Catherine again.