“I was just wondering how much I would have to pay your parents as a stud fee. Now it appears like I might have to ask you.”
Nick glanced at the horses in question. “Looks like Rem would do it for free.”
Beth glanced around him to see the stallion cozying up to her mare and laughed again. “So it would seem. She’s not even in season.”
“Like rider like horse?” Nick asked, briefly tucking his arms around her and kissing her cheek before picking up his rifle and their sack lunches.
He took Beth’s hand and led her to a nice spot in the shade beneath the aspens a few feet away from the lakeshore. She spread her blanket out, and they ate their lunch in silence. When they were finished, they stuffed the remnants of their meal back into the paper sacks and set them aside to be stuffed into thei
