Heart Horse (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 27) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-02-29T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

I made it down the creaky stairs and out into the dark night without anyone hearing me. The moon was full and it cast eerie shadows across the farm. I’d grabbed my jacket and a flashlight but I still shivered, more from nerves than anything. I knew what I was doing was wrong. If Jess snuck over onto our farm in the middle of the night I wouldn’t stop until she’d been arrested but that was because I would have known that she was there to harm our horses. I didn’t want to harm anything, I only wanted to look.

Thanks to the moon, I didn’t have to use my flashlight as I walked quickly across the grass to the fence line. It had been fixed now so I climbed over and made my way through the tall dead grass in the abandoned field. So much good grazing that had gone to waste because it was too close to our undesirable farm.

The lights were still on at Jess’s house, shining out into the darkness like rays from a lighthouse. I crouched down in the tall weeds, my heart pounding. If they hadn’t gone to sleep then it was too risky. I couldn’t let myself be caught. But the house was big. More bedrooms and bathrooms than any normal family could ever need. The windows that were dark were probably the ones where Jess and her family were sleeping and the lit ones were most likely empty, awaiting the fancy guests who arrived when they threw lavish parties.

I waited for a while, watching for any movement or noise. The flash of a shadow past a lit window that would let me know that people were still awake or a splash in the pool as they all went for a midnight swim. But after a while all I could hear was my own breathing and a rustling in the grass behind me that could very well have been something worse than Jess like a coyote or a snake. I stood up, wincing as I got a cramp in my calf, rubbing it for a few minutes before moving on.

The manicured fields up by the barn were empty. Jess would never let her horses out at night. There was a gush of water as the sprinklers were working overtime in one corner of the field, keeping the grass unnaturally green for this time of year like a golf course. I ran across this field where there was no tall grass to hide me and then crouched by the gate.

The barn was dark except for the large light over the entrance. It lit up a circle of ground beneath it. If I got caught in that light, if someone happened to look down to the barn at that exact moment, I’d be spotted. Instead I ran around the back, heart in my throat.

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