Headed for the Win (Nadia and Winny Book 1) by Eliker Rachael

Author:Eliker, Rachael [Eliker, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“What happened here?” Danika peered in my stall. “Mike! Call for the vet!”

Ms. Diederich slid her bony hands around the bars and pulled herself up to look in. A shot of panic flashed in her watery gray eyes. “Colic.”

“What?” I sprung my head up. Before I could rise, Danika was at my side.

“You're just fine, Winny. The vet's coming.” She ran her hands over my flank and pressed her ear to my side.

“You hear noises?” Ms. Diederich asked in her rich accent.

“Hmm-hmm. She's not completely stopped up. It must have been a mild case.”

Mike skidded to a stop, holding the vet's emergency kit. “Dr. Calvert's on his way.”

An older gentleman, sporting a fedora bounded to our group. “Sorry it took me a minute. I had to get some syringes from my truck.” He began poking and prodding me in some very ticklish spots. I couldn't stop twitching. “She seems a little tender. How long has she been like this?”

Danika answered, “I just found her. Mike, did you notice anything odd last night?”

He shook his head, eyes wide with dread. Wordlessly, he slipped out of sight.

I could feel myself starting to panic. I wasn't sick. I'd only rolled in my shavings to scratch my back. Wanting to get up, Dr. Calvert insisted I stay down, checking me over before I was allowed to stand on my feet.

“I'm going to give her an injection of Banamine in case it is colic. It'll help her muscles relax and hopefully get her digestion moving again.” He filled a rather large syringe with the viscous medicine and began feeling the grooves of my neck in search of my jugular. “Lie still now, girl,” he coaxed me as he aimed the needle at my skin. He might as well have asked me to lay still while a lion licked at my neck.

Mike came running back with Winny just in time for her to shout a very certain, “No!”

“But she's colicing,” Dr. Calvert calmed her. “She's covered in dry sweat and was laying down when we found her. Not to mention, not a single stool in her stall.”

“That's because I pooped outside all last night,” I neighed in vain.

Winny hugged my nose, feigning concern and clearly knowing just how much an intravenous injection bit. “There's no need,” Winny promised. “We just had an early morning ride. I must not have brushed her down well enough. And I did stalls before I went back to bed.”

Dr. Calvert tucked his massive bear-paw-of-a-hand in his slacks and asked, “So when was she up last?”

“An hour or two ago. It was a really early morning ride.”

Danika raised an eyebrow. “I see. And how did that go?”

With a girlish simper, Winny confessed, “Very well.”

Winny took the flak from the crowd with surprising resilience. They tried to pry some details from her about her unexplained early—in actuality, all night—ride we'd taken but she kept mute, reassuring them that all they needed to know was that I wasn't colicky.

“Thank you, doctor,” Ms. Diederich responded for all of us and he tipped his hat, picked up his kit and left.

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