Harlequin Heartwarming July 2020 Box Set by Cari Lynn Webb

Author:Cari Lynn Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

TRAVIS HAD MCHENRY’S GOLD loaded in less than ten minutes, using a method that Cassie recognized, but had never used herself because she’d never owned a horse that refused to walk into a stock trailer. Travis seemed quite practiced at the technique of leading the horse as close to the trailer as he could without her balking, letting her relax, then leading her away and starting over. Eventually she stood with her head in the trailer, then her front feet and finally all four feet. Then, instead of slamming the door shut so that Cassie could drive away, he calmly led the mare out of the trailer and then back in again. He did it three times. On the final go, he tied her and then closed the divider panel.

“She should be fine now,” he said as he stepped out of the trailer and swung the door shut. “If she isn’t, then just do what I did.”

Cassie folded her arms and stared at the closed door, her dreams of trailering Rebel’s daughter to training arenas and trailheads shaken by the episode. “My new mare has issues.”

“It happens. All it takes is someone who doesn’t know how to handle a small issue and, boom, a big issue is born.”

“I hope this is her only trouble,” Cassie said before meeting Travis’s gaze. What was she doing unloading on Travis anyway?

“It might well be.”

“Thank you.” She hadn’t expected this kind of help from the man she’d bested at the auction, and in some other life arenas, but he’d given it. She automatically put her hand out, as she did when she finished a one-on-one meeting.

Travis held her gaze as he took her hand, as if expecting her to draw it away at the last moment, then his calloused fingers gripped hers and she had the stunning realization that, even though they’d known each other since they were ten or eleven, this was the first time they’d actually touched on purpose. Unless one counted a tackle. But there were extenuating circumstances there. No one had ever said, “Shake hands and be friends,” and maybe it was because of the years of thinking of him as her rival that the feel of his palm against hers ignited a small spark of warmth that curled through her.

She slowly withdrew her fingers from his and dropped her hand to her side. “Thanks, again.” She smiled her this-meeting-is-now-at-an-end smile.

“I assume there’s someone at the ranch who can help unload if there’s an issue?”

“Yes. If Nick isn’t home, Katie will be.” Actually, she could unload the horse herself without either of her siblings’ help now that she knew what she was up against. She hadn’t expected the mare to balk at the trailer, and Jim taking hold of the rope and attempting to manually pull her in didn’t help matters. The mare panicked and she never should have allowed that to happen.

But it had, followed by Travis coming to the rescue.

Travis, whom she’d watched grow from a wiry ten-year-old to the rather impressive guy standing in front of her.

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