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Which would have been fine if she hadn’t looked at the stable and seen one of the horses restlessly biting at his flanks in the stall. At least Ed agreed to let her have a look, but that was where any cordiality ended.
“He’s got colic,” she said, keeping her voice as firm as possible. “I need to do a rectal exam—”
The man’s red face got even redder. “I think I’d know if the horse had colic.”
“He’s visibly struggling. This looks like an issue to me. I really think he should have a rectal exam so I can see if he’s got an impacted or twisted bowel.”
“Missy, I take good care of my animals and I haven’t let him into the grain or anything.”
“I believe you but...”
“I’ll keep an eye on him, don’t you worry.”
“But I will worry,” she said. “Because I think—”
“I don’t need you to think on my animals. I didn’t ask you to.”
She kept thinking about what Byron had said the last time they’d talked.
It made her feel...uncomfortable. She didn’t want to dwell on it. They had made plans for him to move here. That had been the idea. All these years. But most recently he’d asked her if she was open to moving.
What if she went to Virginia?
Her dad had been the biggest reason to stay.
Now that he was gone, she wondered...
Immediately, she thought of Lachlan, and her heart rebelled.
Lachlan was the single most important human being in her life.
Is that right?
Well... Byron wasn’t part of her day-to-day life. It was animportantrelationship, but it didn’t define her in quite the same way.
She had great affection for Byron. But she was well aware that there was an element of convenience to their connection. She didn’t want to be alone.
Her father had been so very lonely.
She didn’t want that.
She hoped to have children, and medically, she was coming to a place where that had to happen, or it wasn’t going to happen. At least, not easily.
She and her dad had a lovely, quiet life here, but there had been a sadness to her father. He had given her stern warnings about relationships early on. Warnings that she had listened to. It was one reason that when she’d met Byron she had pursued a friendship with him. It wasn’t until after graduation that she had suggested perhaps they consider whether or not it might be something more.
Romanticseemed a strong word.
She had a lot in common with him. Her dad had told her that was important.
She didn’t know very much about her mother, except that she had been younger than her father. Wild. They had been different from each other, and they had wanted different things.
It had been a painful experience for her dad, she knew that, too.
She had vowed that she would always keep her head when it came to physical attraction. Not that she’d ever had any issues with it.
Byron was the only person she’d ever met that she could see herself settling down with.
Her dad had told her that the most dangerous thing was getting caught up in the passion of it all.
