Kidnapped Colt by Terri Farley

Author:Terri Farley
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

After the dinner dishes were cleared, Brynna said that the girls could go settle into the bunkhouse. She wanted to get to bed early, so she’d be organized and alert for her five-thirty meeting with Sam and Jen.

“Couldn’t we take turns showing up for that meeting?” Sam asked. It sounded like a great idea to her.

“As long as you don’t mind taking turns when HARP issues paychecks,” Brynna said with a bright grin.

The girls groaned. That wasn’t going to happen.

As they walked toward the bunkhouse, they rubbed goose bumps from their arms and gazed up at a blue-black sky studded with silver stars.

“It’s a gorgeous sky,” Gina said, tilting her head back as far as it would go as she kept walking. “But what happened to the whole desert thing? I’m freezing!”

“You’re not,” Jen said sensibly. “It must be forty degrees.”

“Practically tropical,” Sam said, but the joke ached. Where was Shy Boots? She feared the delicate colt wouldn’t last long out in the cold.

“Still!” Mikki insisted. “It doesn’t feel like a desert.”

“It’s the high desert,” Jen explained. “We’re at about fifty-five hundred feet elevation. You don’t see any palm trees and camels, right? That’s because it snows!”

“But not in summer,” Gina said, purposely chattering her teeth together.

“I don’t know,” Jen said thoughtfully.

“It doesn’t,” Sam assured them.

“Actually I believe there’s been snow in every month of the year,” Jen said.

“In July?” Sam asked, and even as she said it, her smile faded. Could Hotspot protect her foal from the cold?

“I’ll have to check,” Jen said.

Once they reached the bunkhouse, Mikki and Gina crowded ahead to pick their bunk beds from those not already claimed by Sam and Jen. Sam motioned for Jen to stay outside.

“You guys go ahead and unpack,” Sam called after Mikki and Gina. “We’ll be right in.” As the door closed, she asked, “What were you poking me for?”

“I have Ryan’s cell phone number.”

“You do? Why didn’t you say so inside where there’s a phone?”

“Because, if I know anything about Ryan, he won’t answer his phone if he sees it’s you calling.”

“So you call and leave a message and ask him—”

“Nope, I’d be too understanding. I know,” Jen said, holding up both hands to fend off Sam’s glare. “I shouldn’t be, but you’ll make him feel guiltier.”

“He should feel guilty!”

“Right, and once he does, he’ll also start worrying about the horses. If you call him tomorrow or the next day, I bet he’ll answer.”

“By then, those horses could be anywhere,” Sam said. “I’m not convinced this will work, Jen.”

“Neither am I,” Jen said. “On the other hand, what else have we got?”

“Good point,” Sam said, and together, they walked into the bunkhouse.

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