Glimmer (Glimmer and Glow 1) - Page 72

Alice listened with wary interest. She understood what Dylan meant. But she wasn’t so certain it was smart to let go of too much control. Alice knew herself. She knew she could get a job done. She wasn’t so sure anyone else could do it as well. That’s why she was a workaholic. She’d take on extra work because she wanted it done right.

“There’s the stable,” he said, lifting two fingers off the wheel and pointing. Alice peered out the window, seeing long stretches of white picket fences in a golden green meadow. One black and two brown horses grazed in the pasture. In the distance, she saw a neat white building at the edge of some woods and a fenced-off corral.

“How long have you ridden?” she asked him, a feeling of excitement and nervousness going through her at the idea of crawling up on one of the large animal’s backs.

“Since I was twelve.”

She looked at his profile. “Did you first ride at Camp Durand?”

“Yeah. And I’ve been hooked ever since.”

“Who taught you?”

“Alan Durand.”

“Really?”

He nodded, keeping his eyes trained on the road. “Alan loved horses.”

“So you knew him really well?” Alice queried, her curiosity on the subject making her heart race.

“Yeah. We became close,” Dylan said. Something in his tone warned her that he wouldn’t elaborate, so she was surprised when he continued after a moment. “I knew his wife, too. They didn’t take a regular part in Camp Durand programming, although the camp was their baby—their favorite philanthropic project. It was Lynn Durand’s pride and joy. She loved children. But they usually let the staff and the counselors handle things at the camp, with a few exceptions for special occasions.”

“Like you do now,” Alice filled in.

He nodded. “But since they both rode, I ran into them once in a while at the stables when I came to camp that first time. I got close to them my second summer.”

“What were they like?”

“Nice. You’ve never met a warmer couple. Easy to talk to despite their classiness. Welcoming. Gracious.”

“And they took to you?” Alice asked quietly. She’d been avidly curious about Dylan’s association with the Durands, especially since it all seemed to be veiled in mystery.

“Yeah,” he replied, turning the sedan onto a gravel road. “I took to them, too. After a bit. Or maybe a little more than a bit.”

“What were you like then?”

“Me?”

“Yeah,” she said, smiling because he sounded mildly surprised she’d want to know.

“You know how I described the Durands?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Pretty much the opposite of that.”

She laughed in understanding. Before she could follow up with a question, however, he stopped the car and put it into park. A smiling silver-haired man was approaching the car to greet them.

“There’s Kevin Riley. He owns the stables. He’s been around this area forever. He supplies us with a lot of the Durand horses and tack,” Dylan said as they unbuckled their seat belts.

Kevin was down to earth and easy to talk to from the first. They walked together toward the stables, Kevin asking Dylan about the health of his horse, Kar Kalim, who, Alice discovered, had been purchased from Riley Stables. Kevin quickly picked up on Alice’s wariness about horses, which was no surprise. She’d never been good at hiding suspiciousness.

“She’ll go up this first time with me,” Dylan said. “So we’ll need a good-sized saddle and a steady mount.”

“Quinn, do you think?” Kevin asked as he led them through a small corral to the entrance of the handsome stables.

“Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, too,” Dylan agreed. Kevin nodded, his gaze sliding off Dylan and sticking on Alice, who walked between them. Alice did a double take when she saw Kevin’s expression turn perplexed as he stared at her profile.

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