Showdown by Tilly Bagshawe

Author:Tilly Bagshawe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: FIC000000, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780759515987
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2006-06-12T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Milly spent the first three months of the year working harder than she’d ever done before.

Determined to put her heartache behind her and move forward, she made a vow to herself on New Year’s Eve: She would not set foot in England again until she had enough money to buy Newells back and a foolproof plan for forcing Rachel to sell. Making it to the very top as a jockey had always been her ambition and her dream. But now it had become more than that. It had become a necessity. From now on, until the day that she held the keys to her father’s house in her hands, she would live and breathe quarter horses. Everything else could go to hell.

“Everything else,” specifically, meant both Bobby and her family. Having thrown in her lot with Rachel, Linda had become persona non grata with Milly. She steadfastly refused to take her calls at Highwood until, in the end, Linda gave up trying.

“You’re making a mistake, you know,” Bobby told her, after she’d forced him, reluctantly, to get rid of yet another call from home. “What happened happened. But she’s still your mother. She loves you.”

“Well, she’s got a funny way of showing it,” said Milly. She was sitting in the living room at the McDonalds’, in jodhpurs as usual with one of Cecil’s old T-shirts on top, hiding behind a British newspaper. But she turned it around now, flashing a half-page picture at Bobby of Linda arm in arm with Rachel and Jasper at some black-tie event or other. Even he had to admit the three of them looked very cozy. The shot must have hurt Milly.

“Anyway,” Milly bristled, “I don’t see you spending a lot of time on the phone to your mother.”

“I don’t refuse her calls,” said Bobby reasonably.

“You would if she’d sold Highwood to your worst enemy,” Milly shot back.

He relapsed into silence. He couldn’t argue with that.

Since New Year’s Eve things had been different between them for sure. But this time it was Milly who had changed, not him. He could see that she resented his well-meaning efforts to build bridges between her and Linda; that she interpreted all his mitigating arguments on her mother’s behalf as a lack of support for her.

“Don’t you get it?” she lashed out in exasperation the last time he tried explaining Linda’s behavior. “She’s betrayed everyone. Not just me but Daddy’s memory too, and the horses. How could she sell to Rachel? How could she sell at all?”

In fact, Milly was wrong. Bobby did get it. He’d tried to shield her as best he could from the awful stories he heard from friends and contacts in England: Apparently Rachel had sold most of Cecil’s stud stallions, and all the colts, including Radar and a number of others dear to Milly’s heart, to a Middle Eastern sheikh well-known for his cruel treatment of horses who were past their prime. Her rationale—that she wanted to get rid of any animals potentially

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