Dark Secret
Chapter One
The huge chestnut snorted, his eyes rolling wildly in his head.
"Hang on to him, Paul," Colby quickly warned her brother. The
horse was sidestepping nervously, jerking his head, stiffening
his legs.
"I can't, sis," Paul cried out as with a surge of savagery the
animal swung around, breaking the boy's precarious hold. Paul
scrambled to safety, his anxious eyes on his sister's slender
figure.
The chestnut was crow-hopping, whirling, slamming into the fence
with a resounding crash that shook the posts and the ground
itself. Paul winced, his olive skin going pale beneath the dark
tan. Colby was smashed up against the fence twice more before
she hit the ground and rolled to safety beneath the rails.
"Are you all right, Colby?" Paul demanded anxiously, flinging
himself on his knees beside her in the powdered dirt.
Colby groaned and rolled over to stare up at the darkening sky,
a humorless smile curving her soft mouth. "What a stupid way to
make a living," she told Paul absently. "How many times has that
worthless animal thrown me?" She sat up, pushing at the damp
tendrils escaping from her thick red-gold braid. The back of her
hand left a streak of dirt across her forehead.
"Today or altogether?" Pa ... read full excerpt from: Dark Secret ebook
