Scarlett swallowed, trying to get her nerves out of her throat so she could speak. Hudson’s family was clearly gathered for dinner, and she wished she’d called him before just showing up.
But it had taken so long for her to remember what the name of his family’s boarding stable was called, and this was the fourth place she’d visited this week. She hadn’t even known it would be the right place. She just knew his stables had the word Oaks in it.
“I guess I found the right boarding stable,” she said. “Thousand Oaks. Did you know there’s a lot of boarding stables with Oaks in the name? Three Oaks. Forever Oaks. Johnson Oaks.” She ticked them off on her fingers, her nerves firing like they were putting out a twenty-one g*n salute.
She swallowed and looked around at the other people in the ro
