Legends Lake by JoAnn Ross

Author:JoAnn Ross [Ross, JoAnn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780671786175
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

KATE SPENT ANOTHER RESTLESS NIGHT, unsuccessfully chasing sleep. She’d thought she’d put worry away when she’d gotten Cadel out of her life and her house, but concerns kept circling endlessly in her mind, like a bit of seaweed caught in an eddy.

She fretted about Legends Lake. The horse had been born and bred to run; to ban him from doing what he so clearly loved to do could well crush his beautiful spirit. Yet if she and Alec couldn’t break him of his unfortunate tendency to bolt during a race, that’s exactly what would happen.

She worried about Jamie. He’d seemed to be doing so much better lately, coming out of his self-protective shell, no longer so obviously fearful of life. But she’d seen him casting wistful glances at the MacKenna and knew, not from any gift of telepathy, but merely a mother’s natural instincts, that he was fantasizing how life would be if only the Yank horse trainer were his father.

All the more reason to avoid temptation, which was proving a great deal easier said than done. Especially since during those short periods of time she did drift off, her dreams were filled with the man. Kate suspected that were she to look up the definition of a “near occasion of sin,” in the catechism from her days at Holy Child School, she’d see Alec MacKenna’s face looking right back at her.

Of course he’d be wearing that cocky smile, and there’d be that same devilish gleam in his eyes that had undoubtedly coaxed more than his share of women into bed. And his mouth …

When just the memory of what that mouth had been doing during her hot, erotic night visions made her skin feverish and caused her blood to thicken and pool between her thighs, Kate groaned and pushed herself out of her lonely bed. There’d be no more sleep tonight.

After dressing quietly in the dark, Kate slipped outside to a dark world draped in a cloak of misty white. She worked in the barn, cleaning out stalls by the faint yellow glow of the electric lantern, and discovered yet something else to fret about. What if the fog lingered and ruined her plans for the day? Alec was right; he was running out of time if he were to have Legends Lake cured, trained, and ready to race in the American Derby. Now that she’d given him the answer as to why Legends Lake bolted, what if he put the horse onto that jet plane and took him back home?

“Where you knew all along he’d be going,” she reminded herself firmly. “No matter what might happen between you.”

By the time a rosy glow arose over the peaks of the eastern mountains, the morning fog was starting to lift. Kate decided to take it as an omen that the rest of their day would go well.

“Don’t we have a treat for you this morning, darling boy,” she crooned to Legends Lake, who returned her greeting with a whinny. She stroked his long face, scratched behind his pricked ear.

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