Chapter 5
Sometime later, he couldn’t exactly be sure but it had probably been about two hours, Birch led him into a familiar backyard behind a house he’d visited days earlier. Of all the places she thought to bring him…She went right for the remains of the garden, nosing around at the few pieces of greenery that remained. Nathan merely shook his head, too tired to figure out how they could have left the barn for a simple trail ride, gotten lost in the woods, and end the adventure in the backyard of Lucas’s house.
The idea of riding another seven miles just to get back to the barn sounded unappealing.
Nathan attempted to dismount, landing on his butt in the disturbed earth. He was surprised to find his legs shaky, the muscles of his thighs aching.
“Are you okay?” Lucas’s voice drew his
