Luck: The Eventing Series - Book 4 by Natalie Keller Reinert

Author:Natalie Keller Reinert [Reinert, Natalie Keller]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Eventing Equestrian Sports
Publisher: Natalie Keller Reinert
Published: 2018-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Pete came home in the twilight and helped me put blankets on everyone. The stars were twinkling furiously in the dark sky, their pulsation promising another bitterly cold night. Was this the coldest March ever? We should be done with this nonsense by now. This was Florida. I glared at Mickey as he waited, ears pricked, for me to get his rug on. There were always more chores! All I wanted from life was to hustle into the trailer and get into my flannel pajamas. The minute I had Mickey’s last buckle fastened and had him deposited back in the pasture, I ran inside, Marcus panting hot on my heels.

Pete came in a few minutes later. I was already buttoned into my super-strength jammies. He took one look and laughed at me.

“Like you’re not cold.”

“It’s maybe forty-five degrees.”

“I don’t want to talk about it.”

He shook his head, still laughing. “Get under the covers and I’ll make you some supper.”

I cuddled up under a fleece blanket and watched him throw together salads while water boiled for a box of pasta. The tiny counter was just big enough for a small plate to chop veggies on, and he had to balance the bowls on the one burner of the stove which wasn’t occupied by the little saucepan. Our salads would be warm, I thought. Who knew cold salads were a luxury item?

“Delannoy comes tomorrow,” he said eventually. “I’ll be out all day with him.”

“I have lessons,” I said. “And to talk to Lindsay’s mom about her moving into eventing.”

“Think she’ll go for it?”

“Did you talk Rogue’s owners into selling their horse? I can talk Lindsay’s mom into letting her daughter try a new discipline. It’s no stretch. The horse is already an experienced jumper. She could probably go out and win at Prelim if she could just get through the dressage. I’ll play down the cross-country and just focus on improving Lindsay’s equitation. And getting her excited about riding again. That’s all her mom really wants, anyway.”

Pete turned around and frowned at me, looking vaguely threatening with a knife in one hand. It was as if he’d only heard my first sentence, the one about him. “I didn’t talk them into selling their horse. I helped them decide Rogue wasn’t the right horse for their daughter. Which happens to be true. I didn’t make that up. You saw the way he bucks.”

I shrugged. It still felt icky to me. And like a betrayal of the girl’s trust, although I didn’t know her.

“She’s never going be good enough to ride that horse safely,” Pete said, reading my thoughts, and turned back to his chopping. “Anyway, after we’re done, let’s talk about the eventing calendar and make sure everything’s all set for the next few horse trials. I don’t want to get caught by surprise after all these weeks off.”

I picked up my lesson book and flipped through it. “You mean like the one in two weeks?”

He sighed. “Exactly like that. I thought we were still further out.

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