Oz stepped into the kitchen behind his wife, and his eyes narrowed on his brother.Winslet grabbed his arm and shook her head slightly, as if to stop him from reacting to Forge’s comment.
“You’re right on time,” Halo assured them.“We are just making our plates.”
Oz nodded his head toward the table for Winslet to go sit down.She started to frown at him, but whatever look he gave her made her cheeks flush, so she walked over toward the table.
“Flight time still the same?”Oz asked Calvin after watching his wife until she was seated.
“Yeah,” Calvin replied.
Oz nodded his head, then walked around us toward the food.
“I hope you both slept okay,” Halo said.
“We did,” Calvin told her, although I hadn’t slept much.Not that he knew that.He hadn’t asked me about my night.He’d been too focused on making me comfortable with his leaving.“I don’t think I woke up once.”
Halo smiled at him, but her eyes shadowed concern as she looked at me.I managed a smile as I took the plate in my hands and walked over to the table, being sure to sit at the other end as Forge.
Calvin gave me a slight frown as he sat down beside me.Did he not notice that Forge wasn’t thrilled we were here?I thought he was making it pretty obvious.
“You taking Halo and Hawkins today?”Oz said as he put food on his plate.
He didn’t need to look at his brother for Forge to know who the question had been directed at.
“Yeah,” Forge replied.
“Stay here when you bring them back.We have a run to make tonight, and Linc wants you, Gathe, and Than at the house.”
Forge didn’t appear happy about that as he scowled at his food, but he nodded.
“Bane going too?”Forge asked.
“No, he’s preparing to head out tomorrow.Santa Anita, remember?San Felipe Stakes is this weekend.”
I didn’t know much about horse racing, but I knew that Stakes had to do with races.
“Winslet and I are staying here while they’re gone,” Oz added.
“What horses does he have racing?”Calvin asked before taking a bite of bacon.
“Just one.Slingshot,” he replied, then shot a smile in Halo’s direction.She was beaming.
“My little underdog got a Triple Crown nomination and qualifies,” she said with pride in her voice.
Calvin turned his head to look down the table at her.“Slingshot is yours?”he asked.
She nodded.“Yep.He sure is.”
“Are you going too?”
“I wouldn’t miss it.”
“That’s awesome.You must be excited.Did you buy him, or how did you get him?”
Calvin was very curious and always asked a lot of questions.Halo didn’t seem to mind though.She seemed pleased he was interested.
“He was a gift from Bane.The first horse I ever got to name,” she explained.
“You called him an underdog,” Calvin pressed.
