Last Chance (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 6) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

As I walked to Miguel’s office, I thought about what I would say to my mom when I called her and asked her to come and pick me up early. Or what I would say to Esther. She would be so disappointed in me and I knew she would side with Miguel, saying that it was both dangerous and stupid to jump the arena railing. And what about Taylor? She’d probably want to pull my sponsorship and take back all the clothes I was currently wearing and the saddle I needed in order to ride Bluebird. One way or another, I was going to have to talk Miguel into letting me stay. I just wasn’t sure how I was going to do that.

I knocked on the door, feeling a little like I was being called to the principal’s office, only I cared about a million times more what Miguel thought of me than any principal had.

“Come in,” he said.

He was sitting behind a large desk but unlike Esther’s, this desk was not piled high with old bills and new bills and all the in-between bills that got lost in the shuffle. This desk had an expensive computer and one of those leather things that you wrote on so that the ink didn’t bleed into the wood, even though no one wrote with real ink anymore.

“You wanted to see me?” I said, my voice not sounding as scared as I thought it would.

“Yes. Sit.” He motioned to the chair.

“I just want to say that I’m really sorry,” I blurted out. I figured that maybe it was best just to apologize first and get it out of the way. “It was a stupid thing to do and it will never happen again. I promise.”

He crossed his arms. “If it was such a stupid thing to do, then why did you do it?”

“I don’t know,” I said.

“Yes you do. Explain it to me.”

I thought about how scared I was when Fury ran away with me and the fear that turned to joy as she soared over the railing. I’d wanted to redeem myself. For Miguel to see that I could ride after Fury had embarrassed me like that. But there was also something else.

“I didn’t want her to think that she could get away with it,” I said. “Fury jumped out on her terms but I wanted her to jump back in on mine. I didn’t want her thinking that she could just run away any time she felt like she didn’t want to do something. I was acting on instinct. I’m just sorry that it was wrong.”

He sat there staring at me but I couldn’t look him in the eye for fear of bursting into tears so instead I looked up on the wall behind him. It was filled with photos of all his winners. Horses standing with blue sashes around their necks and victory coolers on their backs. I wanted that to be me one day and I wanted to learn from the best.

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