Luck (The Eventing Series Book 4) by Natalie Keller Reinert

Author:Natalie Keller Reinert [Reinert, Natalie Keller]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports, Equestrian, Eventing
Publisher: Natalie Keller Reinert
Published: 2018-01-11T21:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

I couldn’t say why it bothered me so much. I just couldn’t believe a girl could go from wanting to get her horse back to the show-ring one week to wanting to sell him the next week. Granted, I didn’t know anything about this girl. She might have been ready to give up riding, like Lindsay. But I did know that even if Lindsay got her much-talked-about wish and wasn’t forced to ride anymore, she’d put up a fierce fight before she let anyone else near William. There was something in the way she handled him, something in the way she spoke to him, which said she loved him beyond any value he might have as a show-horse. The way horse-girls do.

Then again, William had never done anything to scare Lindsay. Fear was a powerful motivator, especially when you were in the saddle and being judged. It could motivate you to try harder and be a better rider, or it could motivate you to hop right off that horse you thought you’d love forever, hand over his reins to the first person available, and run away. Giving up on a horse wasn’t always a mistake, but when it was, it was usually impossible to recover from. Horses rarely return once they’re gone.

I had a feed store run the next morning, which pushed riding off to midday. This was another big change from keeping horses in Ocala, where everything could be delivered and you didn’t have to take hours out of your day to drive to the feed store, load up the truck, schlep back home, drag the fifty-pound bags out of the back of the truck and stack it all up again. By the time I got back, Pete had finished riding his horses and was nailing up some plywood to create half-walls around the unfinished stalls.

“I stopped at Publix for subs,” I announced, presenting a plastic bag bulging with foot-longs.

Pete dropped the hammer. “You are a queen among men,” he told me, and I accepted his tribute.

That afternoon, once we had recovered from an over-abundance of meats, cheeses and sweet teas, I rode Jim Dear over to the equestrian center alone. Pete had gone over to Penny Lane to talk to Rogue’s owner and her parents. He was going to tell them he was prepared to make a serious offer based on what he felt the horse was worth—enough to buy the girl a new, more suitable horse. That way, he’d explained to me through a mouthful of Pub sub, it would be out in the open and he’d know if they were going to ask a ridiculous price for the horse or stay in line with what he thought he could get Delannoy to pay.

It was all more subterfuge than I felt like I could deal with. Another reason, I thought, to stay well clear of all those sponsorships and syndicate games. If only I wasn’t getting dragged into it with Mickey’s situation. Grace had told me to

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