Wanted a Castle

Born into a wealthy family and a only child my future was secure. My parents were career driven people. I was born when my mother was almost 40 and father 46, my childhood was lonely and boarding schools from the age of 7 right thru to college I rarely saw my parents. Then in my last year of college my mother sent me a memo just to inform me of my father's death (heart attack) and the when the funeral was. My mother a very driven woman had been neglecting her health, and I was shocked by her appearance. Quick snacks and working long hours sleeping was mainly short naps and it showed. Drank coffee never long without a coffee in hand and even missed snacks by just drinking coffee for days at a time. After the funeral she went straight back to work, not surprising she also had a heart attack. She could've survived except she fell down a staircase the fall was the reason given for death on her death certificate not the heart attack which was the cause of the fall. I'd graduated by the time of her death, not wanting to follow my parent's lifestyle and not needing to either. I sold off their business and left to follow my dream; I'd always wanted a castle watching internet videos of people doing up old castles I started looking for my own castle to refurbish. Only then did I realize all the legal hoops I'd to jump thru, all were listed in some way or another. I even started thinking of just buying a move in ready castle, but they also had restrictions on them on whatever you wanted to do to them. Finally, I found my castle or ruin is a closer description of it. Its main draw to me was its complete lack in history status. Nothing in its past or construction warranted it according to the experts. So, I would've a free hand as they say, I wasn't going rebuilt it myself, I would pay the bills and tell the builders what I wanted. My family's reputation as no nonsense types, made getting it rebuild a lot easier, I think. It was easier for everyone to do what I wanted than getting sued of which my parents had been famous for doing. My distant type of personally, made everybody think I was like my parents. But it was from being alone all of my life, I found it easier to hire an assistant for finding out information and chasing up deliveries. So, I could watch my castle actually being built. My assistant a local girl a no nonsense type but had the people skills I didn't. She could speak with people easily; I was too stiff and formal according to her. She is three years younger than I, but more worldly and over time we bonded. First becoming a team working on rebuilding a castle, then we became lovers on a rainy night. Once we'd started sexual relations it continued making our relationship stronger and stronger. Appearing to the world as if we were just working the same as before becoming lovers. I never showed her affection when we were in public, nor did she show me any as well. None of their business she said, so it came of somewhat of a shock to all, when we announced we were marrying. Castle was almost finished and my soon to be wife had decided we should celebrate its completion with a celebration for everybody who was involved in it rebuilding and also our wedding. Fitting we celebrate our marriage and its completion as the first celebration in the castle since its rebuilding. Also, I knew the builders better than I'd my own family, my wife's family were also going live with us, I knew them better than I knew my own parents. In the four years rebuilding the castle, I'd seen them more than I had seen my own parents in sixteen years since starting boarding school. My wife got pregnant shortly after the wedding, we now have three children. We don't employ any staff, my wife's family live with us and everybody helps run the place. Not paid by their choice, as we're family, if they require anything it is just gotten. My mother-in-law runs the kitchen; I've learnt to do most things myself. But my wife oversees everything, we're all happy with our new lives. We don't want for anything but not actually wanting anything we never had before. Only in one area do we spend freely, decorating the castle. Auctions are our hunting grounds, suitable furniture and of course medieval weapons and armor for hanging on walls or suits aligning the corridors. Nothing bought without my wife's approval, going to an auction is a family affair. My wife bids I watch the children.