Off Course (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 12) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

My father didn’t really feel like a father. After all, I didn’t have much of a connection with the man I hadn’t seen in nine years. However, he did feel like a horse trainer who knew I’d just had a horrible fright on the back of a horse and the best thing for me would be to get back on and pretend like it had never happened. My mother would never have understood and she would have been absolutely livid about it but all I could think about was what horse was it I was going to get to ride.

“Really?” I said.

“Sure.” Dad looked at me and actually grinned for the first time, probably glad that I had a back bone and wasn’t some chicken daughter who was going to embarrass him.

I followed him to a stall where there was a beautiful bay gelding with a blaze and four white socks. His coat was a light liver color thanks to the fact that he’d recently been clipped.

“This is Socks,” Dad said.

“Socks?” I laughed. “That’s not very original.”

“Well his show name is Soliloquist Deity.” Dad shrugged. “You can call him that if you like but it’s a bit of a mouthful.”

“Wait a minute,” I said, the wheels turning in my head as the name triggered something. “Isn’t this…?”

“Missy’s horse?” Dad said. “Yes.”

“Then I can’t.”

I backed away from the stall. Socks wasn’t Missy’s top horse by a long stretch but he was one of the up and coming youngsters in her string. I knew she’d been bringing him up through the ranks and I knew that the last thing I wanted was to mess the horse up. I also wasn’t even sure that I wanted to ride any horse that had anything to do with Missy since I now considered her to be a horrible traitor and an awful person. Even though I knew that was completely irrational.

“He’s a fair ride,” Dad said, missing the point altogether. “You won’t have any trouble with him.”

I looked at the beautiful horse standing there, waiting for me to stop being stupid and ride him.

“What’s he entered in?” I asked.

“The speed class,” Dad said. “He likes to go fast.”

“So do I,” I whispered.

And just as I was about to say no, I saw Jess out of the corner of my eye.

“Jess isn’t entered in that class by any chance, is she?” I asked.

“Yes,” Dad said.

“Then I’m in.”

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