Pony Club Secrets 06- Storm and the Silver Bridle by Stacy Gregg

Author:Stacy Gregg [Gregg, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: E, YA
ISBN: 0007270313
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
Published: 2009-08-06T04:00:00+00:00

In her room, Issie quickly pulled on her jodhpurs and grabbed her vaquero hat before heading back down the stairs and out of the front door. The moment she was outside she was struck by just how hot the sun was. It was mid-afternoon, the time when the Andalusian sun reaches its peak and the vaqueros, weary from the heat, take a siesta. This afternoon nap would last for a couple of hours, until the sun sank lower and they could return once more to their work.

The heat and the siesta would work in her favour, Issie realised. There would be no need to talk her way round the men at Roberto’s stables and convince them to let her take Angel out. The men were crashed out asleep on their cots in the bunkhouse. There would be no one at the stallions’ stable block to stop her.

Angel was standing at the back of his stall in the shadows as always, but the stallion came forward without hesitation at the sound of Issie’s voice.

“Hey, boy.” Issie couldn’t help feeling pleased that Angel was responding to her already. She reached out and ran her hand down the stallion’s noble face, finding herself filled with pity all over again as she felt the ugly scar tissue that Vega had inflicted.

She thought of Storm now, in the hands of Vega. She couldn’t bear the thought of the serreta being used on him. Well, she thought, as she snatched the bridle off the hook in Angel’s stall, she didn’t need to worry about that for much longer. She would saddle up now and ride to Vega’s hacienda. Vega’s men would also be having their siesta when she arrived. She would be able to slip in and take her colt back in broad daylight, before anyone even realised she had been there. All she had to do was saddle up before anyone noticed her and—

“Going somewhere?”

A voice behind her made her jump. She spun round and saw a man standing there, wearing the traditional vaquero costume of El Caballo. In the darkness of the stable she thought at first that it was Roberto Nunez. Then the man stepped closer and she could see his face.

“Alfonso!” Issie said. “You scared me half to death! Don’t sneak up on me like that.”

“Taking Angel for a ride?” Alfonso said.

“Uh-huh…” Issie began to try and think of a fib she could tell him, something he would believe, but she could see by the look on Alfonso’s face that he wouldn’t be fooled.

“Let me guess,” Alfonso said. “You’re going after the colt. You’re going to Vega’s stables to bring him back, all by yourself?”

“No! Well, yes, but…” Issie tried to stay cool, but instead she found herself babbling. “Alfonso, I have to do it! He’s got Storm. I need to get him back before Vega uses the serreta on him. I know you can’t understand how much he means to me—”

“Hey! Hey!” Alfonso cut her off. “Calm down, you’ve got me all wrong.

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