Rough (RRR #2) by Kimball Lee

Author:Kimball Lee [Lee, Kimball]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00YLC017K
Publisher: Churn Romance
Published: 2015-05-29T23:00:00+00:00

“C’mon beauty, the kids are here,” Holt says and I follow him over to a split-rail fence where a cowboy stands with two saddled horses. “Hey, Lonnie Jim, how’s it going today? This mare gonna behave herself? This is my girl, Scarlet, it’s her first time to ride—ever.”

The cowboy laughs hard as he looks me over from head to toe, he’s couldn’t be much older than fifty, but he seems ancient, weather-beaten and toothless. “This here mare’s actin’ up somethin’ pitiful, skittish as all git out. Yep, you’d a thought she was in a pit of rattlers this mornin’, she pitched a wall-eyed fit when I threw the saddle over her. I don’t believe you ought to let that purty gal try and tame her, but it looks like she’s done gone and tamed you, Holt!” He says and he and Holt laugh as my eyes widen and I back away from the white mare. “Aww, I’m pullin’ your leg Miss. Ol’ Sugar is sweet as a speckled pup, ain’t a gentler horse in the stables. And she is speckled if you’ll come on over here and give her a good pat and look her over. See how her coat is whit but mottled? This here is a Leopard Appaloosa, a fine, fine horse.”

“Okay,” I say, trembling at the size of these horses, they’re way bigger in person than they are in TV movies, and Sugar is a regal and gorgeous.

Holt reaches out and pulls me close to him, then stands behind me, his big hands guiding mine along the horse’s neck and ears, down to her soft muzzle. He talks low and gentle to me and the horse, “That’s right, girl, Scarlet’s new to this so let’s not spook her. Let her get your scent Scarlet, and don’t be afraid, a horse can smell fear. See there, you’re doing just fine, she trusts you, and she’s in love with my horse so we’ll have a good ride. This is Buck, he’s a good ol’ boy, best cutting horse I’ve ever had the pleasure to know and work with,” he says, clamping an arm under the thick caramel-colored neck of his horse, and whoa, that horse is even bigger than Sugar. But it nuzzles and butts its head against Holt’s shoulder like a humongous puppy, and grumbles out these low sounds so that Holt grins and whispers to him like a lover. “You have to love a horse like you love a human being, they’re smart and loyal, and I believe they have souls, but their souls are pure, with no inclination for malice.”

“Holt ain’t never met a horse he didn’t like or one that didn’t like him back,” Lonnie Jim says, grinning ear to ear. “He’s got the gift, like they say, a horse whisperer. Hell, when he was no more than a tot we’d find him asleep or readin’ a book in the stables, just curled up to Ol’ Midnight, God rest him, or one of the other stallions.

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