Springtime at Catoctin Creek by Natalie Keller Reinert

Author:Natalie Keller Reinert [Reinert, Natalie Keller]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, Small Town, Equestrian
Publisher: Natalie Keller Reinert
Published: 2021-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Nadine

“I HEARD SEAN is going to dinner with Martha tonight.”

Richie was leaning into the office, a big grin on his face.

Nadine put down her pen. She’d been trying to figure out how many more combinations she could fit into the hunter pace schedule. The event was only half-full but with a month left to get entries, she was still hoping she could fit in extra riders. Every penny that came in would help the therapeutic riding program, and by extension, help avoid any financial woes Caitlin might be anticipating.

“Any thoughts on that?” Richie asked.

“Are you trying to get me riled up about this, Richie?”

“A little bit,” Richie said, unabashed. “Wanted to see what you’d say.”

“You’re a big gossip. Your wife should do something about you.”

“I try!” Rose’s voice floated from across the barn aisle. “Ain’t nothing I can do with him!”

“He’s just having dinner with her, Richie, it’s perfectly innocent.” Nadine spoke knowing her words were meaningless; it was highly unusual for a trainer and a student to have dinner together. The only reason there could possibly be was a potential business agreement, and if Sean was trading off the books with Martha, Caitlin was going to lose it on him.

She’d tried telling him as much before he went into the ring for his last lesson of the evening, but he’d brushed aside her concerns. “I’ve got this,” he kept saying, as if Nadine had any reason to believe Sean could pull off a business dinner with one of the farm’s clients and not get into trouble.

Maybe she should have—after all, he’d managed to get the job here with what she could only assume were fake references. But still, Nadine had little faith in Sean on this one. He was heading for a crash.

She didn’t want to see it.

“I’m washing my hands of the whole affair,” she told Richie, “and I think it would be great if you kept out of it, too.”

“I thought you’d be worried about Seany-boy,” Richie told her, acting wounded. “I thought you two were special friends.”

“Richie, come on.” Nadine gestured at her legal pad and the scribblings therein. “Can’t you see I’m trying to do math here?”

“Oh!” Richie’s Santa Claus-beard crumpled with silent laughter. “Wouldn’t want to disturb you while you’re doing math.” He went back to the feed room, where Rose was setting up morning grain, his shoulders still shaking with hilarity.

“That man,” Nadine muttered, picking up her pen again. There was nothing else to say about him, though. Richie was incorrigible. Rose had told them so many times.

Sean, on the other hand…she wanted to catch him before he left. See what he was really up to with Martha. So it was pretty disappointing when Caitlin waylaid her as she tried to finish up for the night, and kept her in the office until past seven-thirty, talking about horses she wanted to sell and students she wanted to advance. By the time she was free to go, the barn chores were done and the parking lot was empty.

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