The Ashbourne estate stables lay far from the main house, tucked behind acres of rolling green hills where silence carried secrets easily. The air smelled of leather, hay, and damp earth. Morning mist still clung low to the ground, softening the world into something private.Grant Ashbourne hated horseback riding.Everyone who knew him knew this.Which was why Diane froze when she saw the notification from his schedule assistant earlier that morning.Private riding session - 9:00 AM.It made no sense.Grant disliked dirt, disliked unpredictability, disliked animals that could not be controlled by numbers or contracts. Horseback riding was everything he avoided.Yet he went.And when she asked him earlier that morning , her tone carefully light, he had simply said-“It doesn’t hurt to try something new now, does it?”That answer did not sit right with Diane. So she followed him.Diane arrived at the estate quietly, instructing her driver to park far down the gravel path. She walked the
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