Leo’s POV After the meeting, I met up with my brother and uncle. When they both saw me, they were so happy to see me alive and well. After we all hugged, it was getting straight to business. “So, how bad is home?” I asked them both. “A total loss. They torched it and made sure it burned to the ground,” Jed informed me. “The horses?” “Gone. They killed them all, including Zeus.” s**t, we were looking at an exceptional year with the sales on the weanlings and yearlings, and now, they are all gone. They even killed my horse, and he was a good boy, too. Generations of the right breeding, to perfect the conformation, temperaments, and movements, all gone. “Mom and Helene?” I was dreading the answer. Were they gone, too? “As soon as they kidnapped you, I sent them to the island. Since it’

