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wasn't sure.
    “Are you okay?” Chet asked leaning next to her. The foreman was good friends with her brother and he'd probably already speed-dialed Drew.
    The woman who'd screamed at the chaotic moment was continuing to whimper nearby. Perfect . She'd have to calm her and the other guests down, too. Plus face the ranch hands, Chet and Drew. At least her brother and Tanya were probably halfway to Denver by now on their baby nursery shopping expedition that Drew had been less than excited about going on.
    “Mandy?” Chet tapped her cheek. “I saw you move. Are you playing opossum on me?”
    She nodded, which made her head hurt more. As she flicked open one eye, she asked, “The snake?” Okay, she was a bit dizzy, but she knew it wasn't anything really to worry about. Stunned, embarrassed, that pretty much covered the situation. And she would have a headache, she suspected.
    “Toby caught him and took care of the problem.” He sounded relieved. “Aaron's helping him put the horses away for now.”
    She still didn't move, but she did glance up at the worried faces focused on her. “Not to worry. Just a bummer of a headache.” None of them looked convinced. She should have the horses brought back, get on with these lessons. It would be kind of like being thrown and not wanting to get on a horse again…for these tenderfoots, not her.
    “We'll try this later. I just need—”
    The words faded away as she heard someone running hell-bent in her direction. She raised her throbbing head enough to see Erik speeding barefoot into the arena and toward her. The tan had left his face. His eyes looked as wild as Blackie's had when he'd spotted the snake. Wonderful. Things just keep getting better and better .
    He stopped and glowered at Chet, huffing out breathlessly, “I called for an ambulance.”
    “I don't need one.” Mandy looked at Chet. “Cancel it. Call Drew, too, and tell him I'm fine. I'm sure one of you has already called or texted him.”
    Chet jutted out his chin. “He needed to know.” But he sighed and stood. “Drew has probably already turned his truck around.” He looked warily at Erik and then started to walk off pulling his cell phone out of a holder on his belt.
    “Tell him to turn around again. I'm fine.” She did not need her big brother tearing back here to take care of her when she didn't need taking care of. And Tanya had been looking forward to this long weekend trip.
    Erik couldn't look more frustrated. A vein pulsed in his jaw, his brow was deeply furrowed. He hunkered down next to her. “You're not fine. You're lying on the ground and your head obviously hurts, from the way you're rubbing it.” He drew in a breath and blew it out, watching her closely. “What the hell happened? I heard a woman's scream.”
    “Not mine.” Mandy stopped rubbing the side of her head and forced herself to sit up. Evil gremlins in her head started pounding with tiny hammers. She put a calming hand on his leg, which seemed to distract him. “Minor snake incident. Spooked horse. I got caught in the way.”
    He appeared to mull over her explanation and she took the time to face the guests. “Why don't you all take a swim in the pool? Or drive into town and look around this morning. We'll try this again after lunch.”
    With some concerned looks, they finally decided she would live and wandered away. That left her with Erik and she didn't quite know what to say or do. She went with the first thing that came into her head. “You're barefoot. Are you nuts?”
    He barely glanced at his feet, flinched at the blood trickling along the sole of one of them. “I'll survive.” She noticed his grimace and knew running across the gravel road and arena ground had been painful. “I had to get to my wife.”
    Warmth swept through her at his matter-of-fact words. Nothing had mattered but getting to her. Before she could let it get to her, make her go all teary-eyed, she attempted to get up. “It was a foolish