rachel and grady: POWER OF LOVE

ered and carried her around the ranch for another two years, until she graduated to a full-sized horse of her own. Even after

hel had worshiped the man. And she had known, right then, what she wanted to be when she grew up. She

ro. Her mentor. An

had fallen in love with and planned to marry until years later when he be- trayed her; and David, age ten, who had grown into a beaut

me plane crash that took Dr. Lewis three days ago. He w

, the front door locked. They'd given Jimmy, their part-time helper, the day off, but Louise was pr

ble for the loss of two people so dear to her. Geese, of all things, flyi

el finished school, received her veterinary license, and came to work with him at the cl

e by side with her mentor was finally accom- pli

t wasn'

frained from slamming it shut behind her. Deat

o start feeling sorry for herself, when no

ntor and friend, and now I have t

me. My,

. The world didn't

for the self-pity. Sh

d need an accurate inventory of everything in th

I miss you and

p of the clinic passed to Grady? As Ray's heir, he would have the final

am she'd had was crum

ened. "Oh, you're back," Louise said.

es. Without her, Dr. Ray always said, there wouldn't be a Standing Elk Veterinary Clinic. The blue-haired

lding up?" Loui

answered. "Grady's there now, and J

A

at, it was a given that she had just formed an opinion or was about

air. Uh-oh. Denial. Another sure sign t

exaggerated ca- sualness, "is h

ways thought he was handsome. He hasn't ch

oe isn't handsome, I agree. But I'm used to his face.

r cheek. "Does Bill know you have these fantasies about younger

grandchil

p- preciate a prime specimen. And you didn't an

then some, she thought. But she wasn't about to admit she had even noticed. "You'

ise said on her way to the outer

ht, her shoulders s

k from her desk. "Com- p

"Okay.

around at the

es. But when she stepped into the

usand other thin

el couldn't think of a single chore. Her mind kept straying back to th

ls of genetics. Dominant genes a