Chapter Six
Simmering
Amanda Plover stood for some minutes outside the stable office before deciding if she would enter. Jake was there—exactly why she wanted to go inside. It had been over two weeks since her world had shattered; and during that time she’d hardly seen her new boss. She couldn’t bear to face him. Having declined the opportunity to continue keeping the stable’s books, she resigned herself to the position she loved best—training horses—and forgot about everything else.
Amanda considered the recent move by her partners as a hostile takeover. She would have simply walked away from the entire operation if it hadn’t been for several complicating conditions. The ranchhouse was, in fact, her family home, and it still belonged to her, along with the three small acres on which it
