You Don't Want to Know by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780758258571
Publisher: Kensington House Pub Ltd
Published: 2012-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

Dern was getting in too deep.

That much was obvious to him as he strode across the wet grass to the stable. With the dog at his heels, he glanced at the looming house and wondered about Ava Church Garrison and wondered why she fascinated him so much.

A mistake.

He couldn’t get even remotely involved with her, and it wasn’t just because she was married. No, there were deeper reasons, the very essence of why he was here working for the damned woman.

Yet he was having trouble maintaining his distance from her, and he could tell himself over and over again that he’d followed her into town last night because it was part of his job, but that would be a lie, and he wasn’t into kidding himself. He was intrigued by her—more than he should be. She was troubled, haunted, but beneath those sad eyes and worried, full lips, he saw another person, a glimpse of the strong, vibrant woman she’d once been.

And that was the person he wanted to get to know, to draw out, the only human on this godforsaken island he felt remotely close to.

Wrong, Dern. Ava’s not an ally. She, too, is an enemy.

“Oh, hell.”

Remember why you’re here. Do not let her good looks or her act get to you. She’s not the victim here, and you know it.

As the dog sniffed around the grain bins, he let himself into a stall where he’d penned the palomino mare this morning. He’d seen her limping slightly earlier in the day and had checked out her right foreleg, finding nothing. Now, as she snorted her disapproval, he straddled the leg and looked at her hoof once more, checking that there were no cracks or bits of gravel or thorns in the frog or sole, that the hoof was intact. Gently, he prodded and searched, and the mare did no more than flick her ears. Nor did she show any discomfort as he examined her foreleg, finding nothing suspicious in the coronet, sesamoid, and pastern. All seemed sound, as did her knee and shoulder. “So what’s with you?” he asked, and she snorted as she turned her head to look at him, a pale blaze showing on her blond face.

He wasn’t a vet, but he’d been around horses all his life. He led this one from her stall to the field where she lifted her nose high into the air, let out a sharp whinny, and took off at a dead run for the rest of the herd. A blond streak, without the hint of a limp, she only slowed when she reached Jasper’s side.

“You think she was faking it?” Dern asked the dog as he watched for a few minutes and decided the mare was going to be all right. “We’ll keep an eye on her, what’d’ya say?”

Wagging his tail slowly, Rover cocked his head, as if in so doing he could fully understand.

“Don’t worry about it. Come on.” Whistling, he headed back to the stables where he intended to check on the tack and repair a broken hinge on one of the stalls.

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