Summary

In Chapter 11, as Viv was riding Mercury the next morning Claudia came running in to tell her that Rick was going to move in with her. Claudia was certain this was true because Rick had spent the night in a Holiday Inn after having told Nan what was happening. Claudia was overjoyed because she suddenly had the family and home she had always wanted. When Viv walked by Mercury’s stall, she thought that if things could change for Claudia, they could change for her as well. She believed she could be the champion she had always wanted to be. When she had told Donald, he seemed angry because he did not know that Claudia wanted children. He suggested that Viv had been like that, too. Viv thought it was a great aspect of their relationship that Donald had made her...