Chapter Two
Collin reached in his pocket for the ring box. Instead of the velvet box left to him by his mother, his fingers wrapped around cold steel. The horse twitch pinched his index finger as he grabbed hold of it and laid it on the dining room table.
He'd come over to the Bennett's after working on one of his cousin Darcy's prized stallions. That Thoroughbred had needed first an x-ray, followed by joint injections. Because Collin hadn't wanted to sedate the racing horse with drugs that could disqualify him for his next race, he'd used the twitch. The restraining device might look like a tool of torture, but in truth, when it was used correctly, it hit on a pressure point that released soothing endorphins and affected calm in a horse. Collin had managed to take his films and medicate
