Chapter 14
The hands of Zoe’s brand-new wind-up alarm clock showed five o’clock. She lay awake, listening to the dawn chorus of birdsong, waiting for the rap on the door. Knock, knock. Captain jumped off the bed and padded out, tail a-wag. Zoe yawned, got up and raised the window blind. First light was peeping around the rose-tinted clouds. One of the best things about this getting-up-at-daybreak business was seeing the sun come up.
A familiar impatience took hold. She couldn’t wait to go riding, but her impatience was tempered with worry. For the last two weeks Josh was doing more than giving her early morning lessons on Cobber. He was retraining Aisha.
She’d been against it to start with, but Josh was relentless. Eventually she’d handed him the mare’s bridle.
Instead of saying thank
