An Inconvenient Elephant by Judy Reene Singer

Author:Judy Reene Singer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-05-12T10:00:00+00:00

Reese opened his earbuds, we sang two rounds of “Happy Birthday,” ate the remains of the cake, and in general had a pleasant evening.

“I’ve got to be up early,” Diamond excused herself as I was saying good night to Reese and Marielle at the front door. “We’ve got horses to train and sell.”

“I don’t know that you’re going to sell any horses,” Marielle said sympathetically. “The economy is scary. Horses are a luxury—there are an awful lot of people in my position who do what I had to do.”

“What position?” I asked guiltily, since I had monopolized the evening talking about Tusker and hadn’t even bothered to ask Marielle how her tutoring was going.

“Oh, you know,” said Marielle. “I’m teaching only two courses now. The tutoring doesn’t bring in all that much—half my salary is gone.”

“Oh, right,” I said. “That must be so hard.”

“We’ve been budgeting like mad.” Marielle sighed. “Thank heavens I met that really nice man who took that old horse of yours.”

My blood froze. The hairs on my arms stood up, and a cold, sick feeling grabbed my stomach. “What really nice man?” I asked breathlessly. “What are you talking about?”

“Remember? I asked you about it during dinner at your mother’s, and you said it was okay. So I put an ad in the paper.” Marielle smiled and patted my arm. “And this really nice man with two kids answered the ad. Pulled up with a horse trailer and took Mousi right away.” She gave a little giggle. “It’s not like I sold him into slavery or anything. The man promised him a good home—going to make him a 4-H project—and he was really nice, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

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