Chapter 163: Compromise

"Nothing," Steve announced. "Absolutely nothing. Punishing him would be at the discretion of the Fergus Stables. I will totally let Karl decide. "

"You trust him so much?"

"I trust him," Paxton emphatically admitted, "but there's more to it." Because of my accident, the stable is in real trouble, so it has to be safe. You have brought us a great sponsor, but we cannot risk breaking our contract with Alston's sponsor as our reputation will suffer. Karl knows best about these things, so he will know best how to play it all out. "

Martin agreed with a nod.

"But since I can forgive Don, do we have to tell Walton about what Don wanted to do to me?"

Martin did not intend his tone to be pleading, but it did. He really didn't want, if it wasn't necessary, to tell someone else about his humiliating adventure.