do. Look, I’ll call a friend of mine tonight. He’s a journalist, and he’ll be happy to write a story that tells the truth about the broker the department planned to sell those horses to. A little embarrassment goes a long way with our public agencies. Once this story is out there, all the DRM will want is for the entire situation to disappear as fast as it possibly can.”
“I just hope you’re right.” She thought of Lee, so weary and worried. “I need you to be right.”
“Trust me?”
“And why, exactly, should I? Remember, I’m stuck in the scientific side of my head—I need evidence.” She couldn’t resist tossing the words he’d used in the bar the other night back at him.
He flushed. “I’ll leave a copy of the article on your porch when it comes out.”
“Like you left the phone. How nice to have my own personal apology fairy.”
His flush got a little deeper. Did it make her a bad person that she was enjoying the upper hand?
“Nora, I screwed up with the horses. And I’m trying to make it better.”
“You need to do more than try. Lee’s a good man. He doesn’t deserve this.”
He stood up. “I’ll make sure he’s okay.”
They left the bar together and stopped outside the doorway. Todd looked down at her thoughtfully. His green eyes, studying her face, brought back an unwelcome memory. Their first kiss. After a movie, in front of her dorm, her sophomore year. He’d stared at her just like this. Serious, and wondering.
She looked away, out at the empty street. At the mountains beyond. Before the drought, a stream had tumbled down the slopes and through the town. It was bone-dry now. She wished she could dry up her memories the same way. They seemed to reside in some underground pool deep inside her, perfectly preserved, welling up at all the wrong moments.
She looked back at Todd and met his eyes, facing down the memory. It wasn’t real. It was just a ghost. Here was the real Todd, who had to be reminded that he couldn’t just ruin someone else’s life for a bunch of wild horses. Who thought she was a total sellout for working for the DRM.
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