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frowned. “Like I said, it
was almost like he was angry, which I know is silly but…”
         “It’s not silly, April. If your ideas were silly,
those guys wouldn’t have hired you, and Damian definitely wouldn’t trust your
opinion so much. He obviously believes what you have to say is worth considering.”
         “Thanks…I’m just so frustrated that I can’t
figure him out. To me, it seems he’s really dominant. But then he wouldn’t have
let Violet ride him all this time.”
         Lex scoffed. “Violet doesn’t ride. She bullies.”
         “What do you mean?”
         “She gets mad real quick when she’s on a horse.
Real quick. No patience.”
         “What does she do?”
         “She’s just rough with them. Thinks she can overpower
them physically. I don’t know where she got that idea.”
         “You can’t physically dominate any horse,
let alone a horse like Prime Time! He’s been putting up with her because it’s
his job, but now he’s saying ‘enough is enough’. That poor horse.”
         “She says he doesn’t listen.”
         “I wouldn’t if I was him. Would you?”
         Lex shook his head. “Probably not.”
         “If she doesn’t respect him, how can she expect him to respect her ?”
         “She doesn’t know anything about horses. You
can’t really blame her.”
         “I guess not, but thanks to her, I now have to
take that horse back to basics and show him that humans aren’t his enemy.”
         Lex smiled.
         “What?”
         “This is the first time I’ve seen you get really
passionate about something since you left the ranch. Reminds me of when you got
pissed off at me about Triumph.”
         “I wanted to hit you so badly.”
         “I know you did. Are you glad you didn’t?”
         “I’m still deciding.”
         “Let me know when you do.” Lex took a sip of his
coffee and smiled at her. If she wasn’t mistaken, a hint of a dimple showed on
his cheek.
         “Is that really when you knew you loved me?”
         He nodded. “Seeing your fire come out when you
thought one of your animals was threatened; that’s what made me love you. You
cared more about him than anything else.”
         “They’re helpless; relying on us for everything.
And if we fail them, they die. Doesn’t seem fair to have no-one to fight your
corner.”
         “So they have you.”
         April nodded. “Always.”
         “What are you going to do for Prime Time?”
         She looked at her hands. “Like I said, I have to
take him back to basics. I just hope Damian lets me. He thinks the horse is
dangerous.”
         “Maybe he is, April. What if Damian is right?”
         “He’s not dangerous. He’s just…”
         “Scared?”
         “He’s not scared. And he’s not confused. It’s
more like determined.”
         “Determined?”
         “Yeah, like if you don’t want to respect me, then
I’ll show you what a mistake that is. I could see it in his eyes in the round
pen. I just didn’t know what it was at the time.” April looked up at him
through her eyelashes. Lex was watching her intently, seeming to hang on her
every word.
         “So what does that mean for his career?” he
asked.
         “If I was him I wouldn’t want to do this job
anymore either. He needs to be removed from this industry. Before someone gets
hurt.”
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 5
     
     
     
         The following day, April approached Damian about
the revelation she had had about Prime Time.
         “It makes sense, Damian. If I was giving you a
command but was speaking in Chinese, you wouldn’t understand me either. And
instead of translating, Violet has been yelling the foreign language louder and
louder in his ear! And the louder she got the more confused and pissed off he got.”
         “But that doesn’t explain why he