Kentucky's Best

Chapter 1

Rose looks at the text message she just got and takes off running across the paddock toward the stables. She is so tired of Jake beating the horses to get them to do what he wants them to do when there are much better ways of doing it.
Rose grew up around animals and for reasons unknown she could get any breed to anything she wanted it to, all she had to do is approach it cautionly and whisper to it, and within minutes it would be eating out of her hands.
That's why most of the vets in the area called her when they were dealing with a difficult patient. Rose would keep the animal calm while the vet did their job.
Skidding to a halt in the doorway of the stable Rose is shocked to see Jake holding a whip in his hand, taking off running again Rose heads right for Jake. Just as she get about four steps from him she drops into a slid, knocking his feet out from under him. Jumping back to her feet Rose stands at her full 4'11 height looking down at the guy now on the ground, ignoring everyone around her.

"What the hell do you think you're doing beating this poor horse like that?" Rose yells causing her long jet black hair to sway around her knees. "Damnit Jake I've told you if you can't handle the horse call me, you don't touch them. I could have you fired for this." Rose snaps as she reaches out and gently grabs the horses halter, then softly rubs it's neck calming him right away.

Harry was standing over to one side in one of the most beautiful and cleanest stables he's ever been in as he watched in horror as one of the grooms took a whip and brought it down, several times, onto the hindquarters of the horse he and his uncle was there to treat when suddenly out of the corner of his eye he see a tiny woman running right at the guy. Then at the last second she slid and knock him off his feet, she then jumps back to her own and chews his ass out, and she was quite amazing doing it too. But what shocked him the most was to see her calmly reach out and grab the horses halter and for that horse to just stand there and let her pet him when minutes before he was throwing a fit. Harry now knew what his Uncle Marty meant by "they need rose".

Once Rose feels Xanadu's heart rate lower she looks up and sees, to her surprise, a gorgeous and very tall guy standing with Doc Marty. "Thanks for sending that text, Doc. Marty." Rose says. "Jake has gotten in trouble before for treating the horses badly. Hell he even kicked Amber's dog the other day." Rose sighs.

"It's fine love, I'm just glad you can move as fast as you do, for as short as you are." Marty chuckles. "Oh and this tall gent here is me nephew Harry, he's going to be working with me, he just got here from England." Marty adds.

Rose steps under the horses head without ducking and sticks her hand out. "Hello Harry, welcome to Kentucky, I'm Rose Glover."

Harry reaches out and shakes the girls hand, surprised at her grip. She looks so young, much younger than his 27 years. Not that he's here looking for romance, he just wants to work with his uncle and live quietly with his young 2 year old daughter Stephanie. His wife Rhonda was killed in a car wreck when she was on her way home from shopping when Stephanie was 6 months old. "Thank you." Harry says in his normal deep voice. "So are you the specialist I was told about that was called out to help keep that beauty calm?" He asks the tiny girl.

Rose smiles. "I am. This way you don't have to sedate Xanadu, I'll just stand here and hold him, and you and Marty can do what you need to." She says. "When you're done we'll move to the next patient." Rose says. "When I'm done here I need to go help Roger with his patients." Rose says looking at Marty. "He's working on Bart's stallion today."

"Oh, well let's get to work then, that horse is a beast, I hate when I'm called to work on Highroller unless Rose is there with me." Marty tells Harry as they get their gear.

Rose watches Harry closely, she hates when a new vet comes to the area and has no clue what to do. It's almost like they forget everything they've learned and she has to remind them what to do, at least Marty is here with Harry. She has to admit he's really good looking though. And tall, he has to be at least 6'5, with long curly chestnut colored hair, but most shocking of all was his eyes, they were such a bright green they reminded her of the emeralds in her momma's favorite necklace she always wore. The one Rose now owns now that both her parents are gone due to being hit by a drunk driver on the way to her high school graduation.
But from what she could see Harry seems to know what he's doing, Marty wasn't doing much at all in fact, Harry was doing most of the work.

"Okay, whose the next patient?" Harry asks once he's done with the now calm horse.

Walking Xanadu to his stall, Rose looks over her shoulder. "You'll be looking at Meadowlark next." She replies. "But you have to do that in her stall, she can't come out due to the sling she's in." Rose adds, leading the way.

Two hours and 7 horses later they were done. On the way out the 3 of them was walking by one of the arenas, Harry notices one of the horses he just treated in there having a fit. It surprised him because the whole time he was working on him he was just as calm as a baby. To look at him now you would think he was still wild. Marty was on one side of him, Rose on the other, when Rose saw what was going on she throws her hands in the air.

"Mother fuckers are pissing me off." Rose mutters, amusing Harry. She then takes off running and hurdles the fence by placing one hand on the top rung and lands gracefully in the arena. Stomping over to the horse she whistles out a tune cause the horse to freeze, Rose then walks up to him, grabs his halter hooks the lead rope to him and leads him back to his stall with no problem at all. When she was done Rose walks back out to Marty and Harry. "Sorry about that, thanks for coming by. If you need help with any of the animals you're treating give me a call." She tells Harry. "Marty has my number you can get it from him if you want. If not, I'll see you around." She says sticking her hand out to shake his hand.

Shaking her hand, Harry smiles. "I'll get the number on the way back to the office. Thanks for your help."

"It's my job Harry." Rose says with a smile as she walks off and gets into a truck parked a few yards from where they were standing.