Man's Best Friend by P. A. Brown

Author:P. A. Brown [Brown, P. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MLR Press; ISBN# 978-1-60820-074-0
ISBN: 9781608200740
Amazon: 1608200744
Publisher: MLR Press
Published: 2009-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“Hold her head. Whatever you do, do not let her up.”

I was practically sitting on Sally’s head. Horses are funny

animals. They can weigh in at over half a ton of nearly solid

muscle, yet if you can immobilize their heads, you can prevent

them from moving. That’s what I was trying to do with Sally’s

Mark.

My lover, life partner, and best friend Dr. Keith Anderson

lay stretched out on the stall floor. He had stripped off his shirt, and normally the sight of his beautifully sculptured bare chest would have had me thinking lascivious thoughts of how

absolutely fuckable he was. But right now he was lying flat on

his side, covered in straw, and blood, and other unimaginable

filth, with one arm stuffed up a horse’s ass. Definitely not the thing to inspire lustful thoughts.

I kept my eyes glued on the opposite, fly-specked wall.

Normally I’m a pretty tough guy, but the sight of all that blood and writhing animal flesh was doing a real number on my

stomach. I could hear a sickening squelching sound, and I

wished I could redirect my ears as well as my eyes, but all I

could do was to try to think of something else. Golf. Baseball

stats. How about them Dodgers?

Keith grunted, and my eyes skated over him, instantly

regretting the trip. His sinuous chest was sheathed in blood and straw, and his muscles stood out in stark relief as he strained to turn the breached foal inside our favorite mare. Keith caught

my eye and frowned.

“Shit, Todd, you look green,” he muttered. But if I was

expecting sympathy, I was disappointed. All I got after that was,

“Don’t you dare throw up.”

I ground my teeth together and looked away again.

“That’s my baby,” Keith said, and I smiled—until I realized

he was talking to the damned horse. “Come on, girl. We just

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have to get this little guy turned for you to do your job. But you gotta be ready, hon. That’s a good girl.”

I don’t know if it worked on her, but it did a wonderful job

of soothing me. Not that I wouldn’t rather be anywhere else—

grocery shopping, sleeping, enduring an audit of the books for

the IRS—but any time I got to be with Keith was a plus in my

ledger book. I’d loved the man passionately since I’d first met him a little over a year ago. It had been love at first sight for both of us when I took one of my dogs in to see the new vet.

Love at first sight for the two humans, that is, though I like to think the dogs loved him too.

It hadn’t always been smooth sailing since then; we’d had

our ups and downs. But now we ran this picturesque little bed

and breakfast, just outside Santa Fe, that was doing very well, and added nicely to the income Keith brought in as a

veterinarian, with a mixed small and large animal practice. It had sounded so glamorous when he told me he’d be looking after

the equine trade, too. I hadn’t realized at the time what that

meant. If I’d

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