Beyond Dreams: Far From Home: A Scottish Time-Travel Romance, Book 4 by Rebecca Ruger

Author:Rebecca Ruger [Ruger, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebecca Ruger
Published: 2023-01-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Her cheeks, arms, and legs rattled uncontrollably as the big beast raced up the hill and through the trees. She endeavored only to keep her seat, knowing that stopping or directing the horse was beyond her. She’d given up trying to find the other stirrup and then her foot came loose from the one Duncan had adjusted for her. Becoming frantic as the horse climbed higher and higher, Holly could do nothing but hang on, one hand on the pommel, the reins curled inside her fisted hand, the other gripping desperately at the flowing mane of the horse. She wasn’t trying to kick the horse and spur him on, but her bouncing legs outside the stirrups kept banging against the horse’s flanks as she was bucked high and hard in the saddle.

The horse charged up and over the top of the hill and Holly was thrust forward as he descended the far side. Her relief at seeing Thallane, even if it was still pretty far away, was short-lived and frankly of little concern as she fought from being launched from the horse’s back. The trees here were not spaced any further apart, which saw the stupid beast darting left and right to avoid collisions. Going downhill in this manner was harrowing and Holly wanted nothing more than to wrap her arms around the horse’s thick neck and just hang on for dear life. But all the bouncing and lack of control precluded her feeble attempts to do so, and then the horse pivoted sharply as if he were in one of those barrel racing contests—that she’d only ever seen on TV—and despite her best efforts, Holly was thrown from the horse’s back.

She cried out as she was flung through the air, the cry being interrupted when she crashed against the bottom of a tree and the ground. She groaned and lay still for a moment, the wind knocked out of her. She rolled forward, away from the tree and onto her belly, her hands on the ground beneath her, her hair shrouding her head and face. Thankfully, she’d only smacked her butt against the tree and though it was instantly sore, she knew nothing was broken. Gingerly, she tested her legs and feet, moving them carefully. All good. But then she put weight on her hands to lift herself and cried out again as a sharp pain shot from her wrist to her elbow. She collapsed immediately, rolling onto her back and cradling her wrist and arm against her chest.

“I’m going to kill him,” she muttered, referring to Duncan for sending her off on that excruciating ride. She stared up at the pine boughs above her head and blew out a frustrated breath. A rustling and thumping, continuous but unnoticed until now, turned her head. She saw only the fat rump of the black horse as he continued down the hill. “And you, too! Stupid horse!”

Her next thought came on the heels of the sound of clanging metal reaching her ears.

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