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zone was a mistake. I don’t know what happened, but the Council is determined to capture him and bring him back.” The doctor’s voice sounded unusually stern. “I just heard about it this afternoon. What is going on out there, Sarah?”
    Pausing by the tack room door, I nodded once at Jackson and rolled my eyes at the phone.
    “We had a disagreement and I asked him to leave the property.”
    “You didn’t have the authority to do such a thing. The Council…”
    “Doctor Fleming, you know what? I don’t give a shit about the Council. They don’t own this land and they can’t tell me what to do.” This whole thing was really starting to piss me off. What right did they have to dictate to me?
    “There was an agreement, Sarah. Between your father and the Council.” He was trying to be patient with me because he understood that I was fairly close to the boiling point. Dr. Fleming had seen my temper first hand more than a few times, so he knew what he was dealing with.
    “An agreement between them that was signed and was to be upheld after my father died?”
    He hesitated for a few seconds. I watched Jackson come out of Lenny’s stall and approach with a concerned tightness around his full mouth. He reached out one hand and touched my upper arm. When the doctor continued talking, I found myself reaching for Jackson and threading the fingers of my free hand through his.
    “There was no signed contract. It was a verbal agreement that your father would keep Michael within the containment field until the Council deemed that his punishment was over.”
    I cleared my throat. Jackson was standing very close to me, his warm dark eyes lit with curiosity and wonder. The pulse in his throat throbbed under his golden brown skin. There was an amazing, electrifying glow around him that seemed to extend towards me and into me where our hands were joined. My lips parted in surprise.
    “Sarah?” The doctor’s voice was sharp against my ear.
    “Hmm?”
    “I realize that you’re not happy about the duty you’ve inherited, but I think your father would have wanted you to honor the agreement he made.”
    “I’ll… I’ll think about it, Doc.”
    Breaking my disconcerting gaze with Jackson, I hit the end button with one finger and slipped the phone back into the fleece pocket of my coat. I needed to double check the journal that my grandfather had started to see if Dad had written anything about the so-called agreement regarding Michael’s imprisonment.
    Two infinitely gentle fingers touched my jaw and slid down to my chin, lifting my head.
    When I looked up at him, I was stunned to see the fire in his eyes. Inside me, in the deepest part of my mind and soul, a torch flared to life. I realized, as I stood there under the hazy glow of the barn light, that the man standing before me would come to mean everything. And it was simple fear of that feeling that caused me to turn away and let go of his hand.
    I moved to Lenny’s stall and put trembling fingers on the stall door latch. “Is he okay? I was coming out to check on him.”
    He sighed behind me, but I couldn’t make myself turn around to look at the expression on his face.
    “He’s fine. He just needs those back teeth filed down. They’re making it difficult for him to chew.”
    Messenger watched us silently from the next stall, her ears forward as if she understood every word we were saying. Lenny came forward and I moved my fingers over the thick hair on his neck and then scratched behind his ears. He let out a huge sigh of pleasure and closed his eyes.
    “I’ll call the vet in the morning,” I said softly.
    I picked up the sound of his boots on the concrete floor as he started to walk away. But I couldn’t let him leave like that, thinking that I was just blowing him off and didn’t care. I had to say something and it had to be real.
    “Jackson, I’m afraid.”
    He did stop by the barn door. There was a wild storm of conflicting emotions consuming us