One Hundred and Four Horses by Mandy Retzlaff

Author:Mandy Retzlaff [Retzlaff, Mandy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

In the weeks to come, family reunion was more and more on my mind. And so, it was with pleasant surprise that I put down the phone one morning and turned to Pat with the wonderful news: Paul was coming home.

It was the first time Pat had seen Paul since he left for England, and no sooner had he arrived on Biri Farm than father and son took out along the training trail with Imprevu and Grey. At the farmhouse, Granny Beryl and I supervised the preparation of a family feast to welcome Paul back, and we eagerly awaited Jonathan’s arrival with Kate from school. Jay, meanwhile, had managed to get a week off from his apprenticeship and was, even now, making his way across Zimbabwe to be with us.

It felt good to be together again. Shortly after Kate arrived, Pat and Paul returned from their ride. I looked out of the farmhouse window to see Paul surrounded by the Crawford foals, tempting the ever-reticent Brutus to eat horse cubes from his hand while Lady tried to get in the way and Shere Khan looked disdainfully down, and watched Kate rush out to meet him. Even in the months he had been gone, she seemed to have grown. Surrounded by foals, he hugged her, putting her down only when Lady pushed her head between them.

As Granny Beryl was making the final preparations for dinner, I went out to join them.

“So, Paul,” I began, “is it anything like you imagined?”

Across the paddock, Pat was running his hands over Deja Vu, his fingers softly stroking the scars on the leg she had trapped in the wire fence on Crofton, all that time ago.

“No,” Paul replied, “it’s even crazier than that . . .”

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