CHAPTER 1: BURIED DESIRE“You have to say yes,” Scarlett prodded her friend, Zoe, for the hundredth time.
“You know I’m just going to keep at it until you give in,” she told her, batting her eyelashes and sticking out her lower lip in an adorable pout.
She was obviously making headway because it was in that moment that Zoe’s expression softened. Her friend knew she had been bested.
Scarlett looked back down at the brochure in her hands, smiling as she thought about being able to check her number one childhood dream off her bucket list. Ever since her mother had tucked her into bed when she was four years old, reading her the story of Black Beauty for the first time, Scarlett had longed to get up close and personal with one of those mighty creatures. She’d bugged every day for riding less
