“How should I know? I wasn’t the trainer. I didn’t handle the paperwork.”

“I think perhaps you handled this paperwork. As I said, those horses are incredibly well trained. You obviously spent a lot of time and effort with them. My guess is that they had no documentation or details in those files because you didn’t want to have problems if your parents decided to remove them from St. Eldon’s.” He reached out and touched her cheek. “Which they might do if you’d brought those horses with you when you enrolled at the school. The horses were yours, perhaps gifts from your parents to make it more palatable to you when they sent you away to school? That would make it entirely reasonable that the reason you were interning with Boujois was that it was a way to be close to the horses you love.”

“You have it all worked out. Except that it’s all completely wrong.”

“I don’t think so. But I’m still curious about Chaos. Chaos must belong to you just like those other four horses, but for some reason I can see he stands alone in your mind. Why?”

“I told you, Boujois bought him. I’ve had nothing to do with him.”

He shook his head. “There’s something else. Your reaction when I was talking about him was…different. I didn’t put it together until I received Davidow’s report today.” He added softly, “You’re a mystery, Sasha. It’s a mystery I could solve in a heartbeat if I chose. All I’d have to do would be to bring out one of those girls in that tent and stage an event and you’d tell me everything. Of course, then I wouldn’t know if you were lying. And I’d also be bored out of my mind with nothing to intrigue me here in this jungle. I’d prefer to put the puzzle together myself.” He shrugged. “Otherwise, in the end I’d have to break you, and that would be a defeat for me. I want to have you as perfect as those horses you trained so beautifully. So I’ll just have Davidow go back to Chaos and give me another report on him. I do hope they don’t kill each other.”

“You wouldn’t let him kill Chaos. He’s too valuable,” Sasha said quickly. “I don’t care what happens to your trainer.”

“But I don’t know if he’s valuable. I have no papers to prove it. All I have is your word. Perhaps Davidow is more valuable.” He turned away. “If I grow bored with this mystery, I’ll decide for myself which one of you should fade into the sunset.”