Secret Rider (Show Jumping Dreams ~ Book 1) by Svendsen Claire

Author:Svendsen, Claire [Svendsen, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Dinner was a cordial event of polite conversation that didn’t mean much of anything. I asked about her job at the museum and in return she asked me about school. She told me that they just got in a new shipment of African artifacts that she was particularly excited about. I lied and told her that school was great. If this whole thing worked out I was going to have to bust my butt to get my grades back up before report cards came out but I knew that Mrs. Wilbur would help me in that respect. Extra credit was my middle name and I’d make sure Mom never even knew I slipped in the first place. If it all worked out.

I played with my pasta, a little overcooked and chewy but not bad. It was just that with the words caught in my throat, I didn’t seem to have the room to swallow it down. Eventually I put down my fork. It was now or never. This was it.

“Mom,” I said, looking at my bowl and not at her face. “I want to go and live with Dad.”

In the years since he left, my mother and I hadn’t had many conversations about my father. In the beginning I remembered her calling him every name under the sun. Then she burned all the photos that had him in them, which is why when I found that one in the attic, I took it back to my room. The fact that I even mentioned him now made her face go instantly pale.

“What?” she stammered.

“You heard. I want to go and live with Dad.”

“No.”

She got up and started putting the dishes in the sink. No? Just like that? It wasn’t even a discussion.

“You can’t stop me from going to live with him,” I said. “He has rights too and so do I. I want to get to know my father.”

She spun around, her face now red and angry.

“This is about that horse thing isn’t it,” she spat. “You don’t want to get to know your father, you just want to ride and you think he’ll let you.”

“So what if he will?” I said. “You’re crushing all my dreams. It’s not fair. Dad would never do that.”

“That man got your sister killed and he’ll get you killed too. I won’t allow it.”

That was the first time I’d heard her say that. I didn’t know if she really believed it or not. Was it true that my father caused the accident that killed my sister? That couldn’t be what happened. It was just a fluke. A freak thing that no one saw coming.

“People get hurt all the time,” I yelled at her. “I could get hit by a bus crossing the street. Does that mean I shouldn’t cross streets anymore? In fact, it would probably be safer if I never left the house. You could just bind me up in bubble wrap and lock me in my room. Stuff food under the door. But you know what? Food is dangerous too.

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