Chapter 11Lake
Three days later, and I still felt the words Theo had spat at me like a slap.
Maybe it had been too easy, but for a moment there, I’d thought we’d be fine despite everything that was going on around us. That at least we could have a working relationship and be friendly, if not friends.
I’d seen him a couple of times, riding this horse or that, training another in the round pen, or just marching from one building to another.
When we’d arrived, he’d been apprehensive and a bit closed off at first, but he’d always met our gaze and soon after began to smile and appear friendly. Hell, I’d felt a camaraderie with him that I rarely did with people.
The Theo I saw now was…different. Completely different. He walked with his gaze to the ground, communicating only with the horses,
