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Why could Trey express his feelings about me to Carmelita, or to his horse, but not to me? When I'd heard him talking to Derringer in the stables, I felt my heart would burst with happiness. It was spoiled by Trey’s behavior after that; his anger with Mark; his disrespect toward me. There was nothing healthy about the situation that occurred tonight in the stables.
As my tears subsided, I knew that I must avoid Trey. I didn’t understand his behavior, and I'd never let it happen again. How pathetic I was to think that we were making sweet love? To Trey it was simply agreat fuck.
CHAPTER 30
Two weeks had passed since that unfortunate encounter with Trey and I was successful in avoiding him. He'd left to go back to Atlanta two days later and Mark and I tirelessly practiced for the dressage competition scheduled for the following weekend. Everything had gone exceptionally well with the competition. Derringer and I took second place, capturing a $30,000 purse. I felt like I was earning my pay with Sinclair Stables and that was important to me.
I'd received a letter from the law offices of Pierce, Harmon, Richardson & Sinclair the second week after Trey departed. There was a cover letter signed by Trey, with a copy attached of a letter that had been sent to Trey by Andrew Sneed of the law firm of Findley, Morris & Sneed, L.L.P. in Louisville. Mr. Sneed wanted to avoid a protracted civil case and was making an offer of a settlement to avoid a civil suit for $10,000. Trey’s cover letter requested that I call his office to discuss the matter.
I called Trey’s office and the switchboard put me through.
“Mr. Sinclair’s office, Tonya speaking,” his assistant said.
“Yes Tonya, this is Tylar Preston. I received a letter from Mr. Sinclair requesting that I call his office to discuss a settlement offer received from the firm of Findley, Morris & Sneed?”
“One moment please, Ms. Preston, let me see if Mr. Sinclair is available.”
A few moments later Trey came on the line, his smooth and silky voice still had the power to give me goose bumps.
“Tylar, how are you?”
“I’m fine, thank you.”
“I understand that you’ve received the copy of the letter from Mr. Sneed relative to the firm’s liability on the matter of the theft of your trust?”
“Yes,” I replied. “I’m confused though, why are they offering a settlement before you filed the civil charges?”
“It’s an attempt to avoid litigation. They want to present the position that we have a flimsy case based on their L.L.P. status, so they are making a token offer to avoid having to go to court and sort it all out.”
“Okay, I get it. Well, I’m fine with it, Trey.”
“Tylar, are you sure? It's just a token of the trust’s value.”
“I know, but when it comes to paying the attorney fees and all of that...”
“We can request compensation for attorney fees as part of the settlement.”
“I just really don’t want to mess with it all, okay?”
“If that’s what you want,” he replied.
“It’s what I want, Trey. You can take your portion of the attorney fees out of it and send me a check for the balance.”
“Tylar, I wasn’t planning on takinganyattorney fees.”
“I don’t want to take advantage of you Trey.” I heard silence on the other end. He didn’t know how to respond.
“Is there something upsetting you, Tylar?”
Oh hell no, Trey! Nothing at all!
“I wanted to congratulate you on placing second in the competition last weekend, Tylar. Good job. I was sorry that I couldn’t make it to the arena. You brought a nice purse in for Sinclair Stables. You know that 10% of that will be coming to you.”
“I hadn’t really thought about it, Trey, but thank you.”
“Well then, okay. I'll send the communiqué to Mr. Sneed. We’ll forward your check to you as soon as we receive it.”
“Thank you, Trey.”
