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That got Jesse’s attention As it should have I didn’t need to see the voting cards of the thousands in attendance to know I’d be strung up and left for dead for saying so like that

There was so much red in the room I could barely breathe

"You’re funny, Rowen You know that?" was Jesse’s amused reply "And by the way, I voted for Obah to vote"

I rolled h and through voted for the blue as blue can be Democratic president The ironies just never ended in Nowhere, Montana

"You’re such a dichotomy, Jesse Walker" I tapped the front of his hat so it covered his eyes

"Whoa Was that just a ‘dichotomy’ you just dropped on me?" The hat still covered the top half of his face, but his sirl who supposedly barely passed high school drop vocab like that and think she’s got us all fooled?"

I hated having him next to me as much as I loved it As far as my relationship with Jesse went, that was prettyin thea fire hazard" Since it didn’t look like he would do it, I tilted his hat back into place His eyes were just as aet back to your hareood withoutback at his eh this week" His voice was full of intention He’d left me alone, somewhat, like I’d asked, but apparently he was done with "alone time"

I groaned and tried to elbow hiet here?" he asked, thankfully shifting the conversation back into the acceptable range

"Would you believe me if I told you I hijacked your horse?"

"Nope No, I wouldn’t," he said "Sunny only lets me ride him Not once in ten years has he let another soul on his back"

"Your horse must be partial to the depraved," I muttered

"Maybe But then he would have let you hijack him like you mentioned"

"I took Old Bessie" I focused on the arena so he wouldn’t see my smile

"Ha! I’d believe you charly--and drove her here"

I couldn’t slip a single thing past Jesse "I walked"

"Sure you did"

I lifted my eyebrows

"What? Really? You walked?" he said in disbelief "It’s, like, five round"

I lifted a shoulder

"You walked?" he repeated again, like it was inconceivable

"Yes, I walked You know, one foot in front of the other? Arently at the sides?" I said dryly "I’ve been doing it for a while now Alood at it"

"I sure have missed that attitude of yours this week," he said in such a way I wasn’t sure if he was being a smartass or serious

Before I could reply with ate inside the arena flew open and a bull the size of a tank busted out of it As if that wasn’t frightening enough, a guy was on top of it holding on to the bucking and twisting aniht the sport was insane based on the naht insane was thoroughly inadequate

"What the hell is this?" I asked, utterly stunned

It didn’t seee couldto do with the laws of gravity How the dude on top could stay upright seemed like yet another slap in the face of physics

"So Other people call it a death wish," Jesse replied as a buzzer went off The guy on top of the bull leapt off and tuuys dressed like clowns clapped and hted hiot odder by thewhere cloere involved amped the scary factor up a few levels

"Have you ever done that?" I asked, still in shock I didn’t knohat I’d just seen, but I’d never forget it

"Nope I’m one of those crazy people that likes the use of all their body parts"