CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Blood and Trouble“Geez Leilah! Why didn’t you say something?” Vaughan’s hiss sent the gelding’s head darting upwards in fear, its eyes rolling as grass tumbled comically from whiskery lips.
Leilah blew out a harried breath. “I went for a walk along the boundary and when I looked down into the water, this body stared up at me.” The shudder seemed to begin in the soles of her feet and rock through her slender frame. She gripped her fingers around the wooden slat and swung her legs for balance. “I needed to get Hector, but he’d kill me for wandering around the property at night. So I let Red out of his enclosure.”
Vaughan’s eyes widened. “You did that on purpose?”
Leilah raised a hand in protest. “I thought he’d just run to the bottom and then come back when Hector appeare
