Heart of Courage by Kat Martin

Author:Kat Martin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-11-07T22:00:00+00:00

Thor worked with the stallion until late in the evening. Before dawn, he was up and working with the animal again, making a good deal of headway, he believed.

Still, the business he had come for was Lindsey, and after seeing her yesterday with Merrick, he wanted to be sure she was safe.

Several of the horses needed exercising. He saddled a white-faced gelding and rode off toward the Renhurst lands to the west. He had just topped a knoll when he spotted a horse and rider in the early morning light, moving at breakneck speed across the landscape. Thor pulled the gelding to a halt, watching as the pair approached a tall hedge and cleared it with ease. There was something familiar about the rider, something that stirred a memory of the lad who had ridden with such skill and grace in the park.

Horse and rider cleared a high stone wall and landed smartly on the opposite side. Thor smiled at the young man’s ability, at the bold way he approached the next obstacle in his path, a wide stream that required the horse to stretch out in front of it in order to clear a small hedge on the near side of the water.

Horse and rider cleared the stream, the animal’s hooves spraying drops of water into the air. They were almost out of sight when the rider’s hat blew off, exposing a long thick braid of tawny hair. For an instant, Thor couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Not a lad, but a woman in men’s riding breeches—a woman who belonged to him!

Clenching his jaw, he set his heels into the gelding’s ribs, urging the horse to give chase. What before he had seen as skill he now saw as wild, reckless behavior and he was determined to stop it before Lindsey got hurt.

He had nearly caught up with her by the time she spotted him. When she did, instead of drawing rein, she grinned and bent over the sorrel’s neck, urging the animal to a faster pace. She took a hedge, clipping it neatly, and Thor’s fury increased. She was no man, even if she rode like one. Sooner or later she was going to get hurt!

She took a stream, clearing it completely, and landed neatly on the opposite side. Thor cleared the stream right behind her, his anger driving him on.

Lindsey slowed as he neared, but Thor did not stop. Instead, at the last minute his arm shot out, hauling her out of her saddle onto his, landing her neatly upside down across his lap. His palm came down hard, once, twice. Lindsey shrieked in outrage and began to struggle against his hold. If he hadn’t been afraid she would fall, he would have landed a couple more blows.

Instead, he stilled the gelding and lowered her to her feet, then swung down from his saddle beside her.

“How dare you!” she spit at him like the angry little she-cat he had called her before. “I have been riding

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