Chapter Twenty
RULE BREAKERSPhoenix crawled into the bunk still wearing her boots. A little voice croaked from the darkness as she summited the rickety ladder. “Where did you go?”
“Bathroom,” she whispered. “Go back to sleep.”
Kylie gave a sigh and her bed creaked. “No, you didn’t. I looked for you.”
“I did,” Phoenix said. Truth backed the certainty in her voice. “I went to the bathroom and checked on Mikaere.”
“Oh.” Kylie sounded deflated. “You were ages.”
“I had to settle him.” Phoenix groaned and unzipped her sleeping bag. She draped it over herself like a sheet. “He misses his family and he can’t stay in the paddock with the other horses.”
“Why?” Kylie raised her voice and Phoenix shushed her and flapped her hands in the darkness.
“He doesn’t like strange horses,” she hissed. “
