CHAPTER 24 | Holly
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Back at Twelve Oaks, it’s another gorgeous Fall day: cool and dry, with impossibly clear blue skies. Though the board meeting will be held in Atlanta, Mrs. Mar always hosts a party at her home afterward. It’ll be filled with the usual suspects—riders, owners, trainers, and friends—but also reporters. If all goes well, the charity program funding will be approved and she can announce her plans and I can collect my bonus and be done.
I climb out of Beau’s truck and turn my face into the sunlight, closing my eyes and enjoying the pale pink behind my lids. It takes me only a few seconds, but when I open my eyes again, I catch Beau staring. His expression is hungry and it makes my joints go heavy, hot.
He isn’t what you need.
But he is what I want. Bein
