CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
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THAT AFTERNOON, ADAM and Nick rode the horses. They followed the trail that led up the mountain from the back of the stables. Nick would usually ride each horse for about forty minutes in the morning and another forty in the afternoon. However, the men chose not to leave the women alone with Darren for so long, so they rode each horse for only fifteen minutes.
They had just returned and were feeding the stud when the motion sensors warned them that someone was approaching the ranch house and had already passed over the property line.
“It’s on the main lane,” Nick mentioned, after checking the tablet he still held in his pouch.
Without a word for Nick, Adam threw the hay from his fork in front of a hungry stallion. Then, he ran out of the stables toward th
