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“Did you check the other mares?”

A er “If they’ve had that ot a disaster on our hands! I’ll check them as soon as you’re done with Lupita”

“We could be here all night” Natalie finished flushing Lupita’s stoestive tract Theher distress “Good girl,” Nataliethe irl”

Beau moved off to check the otherbut hay in their feeders”

“So ould this rain instead of hay?”

Beau’s jaw tightened “I don’t know But when I find out, there’ll be hell to pay”

The foal was pushing against the stall gate,sounds The ent reply “We can take her back now,” Natalie said “But we need to stay and watch her at least until that ic”

While Beau led thethe used tubing, rinsing the buckets, and stripping off her gloves

“Does Slade knohere you are?” Beau caate ajar

“He’s on the road” And he won’t be back till to that Beau ht read more into them than she meant

“He hasn’t given you any trouble, has he?”

Shethe siphon pump neatly inside one of the rinsed buckets so she wouldn’t have to aze

“No, he hasn’t Not that it’s any of your business”

His hand gripped her ar her around to face him “He made it my business when he warned me to stay away from you and threatened to beat you to a pulp if I didn’t” He issued the words in a lol, all the while his gaze searching for any sign of bruising, old or new

Shaken a bit by the news, Natalie worked to make sure it didn’t show “Slade tends to talk a lot And it’s usually just that Talk”