Levi couldn’t focus the following day. But he managed to make it around to all the horses, and this year, he talked with Dwayne before they sat down to the auction on Friday afternoon.
“So who do you like?” he asked.
“Oh, a few here and there.”
Levi chuckled. “We have a trailer that holds four,” he said. “And you brought an extra man. Give me a hint so we don’t have to do what we did last year.”
“What?” Dwayne adjusted his cowboy hat. “Me outbidding you on that bay?”
“I could’ve bought him had I wanted to.” Levi hadn’t even bid once, so there was no “outbidding” that had happened. He had been prepared to give his friend whatever cash he needed to get the horse though. He’d been in a bidding war with another man from Clearwater, but Dwayne had won on his own.
“I like the Appaloosa fro
