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She stepped closerneeding hi him

He chuckled, his lips brushing against her pulse “You rong”

She blinked, breaking the spell he put her under “What?” she breathed

With the crowd roaring around her, he grinned “I won a whole lot tonight”

Chapter 2

Early the following , Nash exited the red barn set next to the rown up in Blackshaw Cattle Company had once been a ain Now, the cattle couest ranch, developed by his eldest brother, Shep, and his girlfriend, Emma And built by the very hands of Nash’s middle brother, Chase But this new venture kept the cattle ranch afloat, kept their mother’s personal money safe, and kept all of the Blackshaw employees on staff It had been necessary since the cattle coe of bankruptcy after their father’s passing

The sky was cloudy with so hope for a fine day Nash ran a hand through his hair before placing his tan-colored Stetson cowboy hat back onto his head The chestnut horse, Bentley, followed behind hi a belly scratch frouests

Three o, Nash wouldn’t have trus

ted the horse he led by the reins around people Bentley had been abused, and by the fear and distrust that had been displayed, he’d endured a great deal of it

It took a good solid feeeks of a fight, including Nash eating dirthe had a pretty sweet life now Luckily, Nash’s professional bull-riding life had taught hi Bentley for hiirl, E the days Emma wanted to ride Bentley, and Nash had been deter up with the guest ranch idea

Even if he’d taave Bentley the exposure to the world that he desperately needed Bentley was gaining trust, and Nash needed to trust him before he let Emma on his back

They owed E input, filled this guest ranch vision The comfort station that housed the toilets and shoas across the driveway Set next to that were the twelve log cabins coht was the recently built corral where the guests tacked up their horses This group was into their second day of their week at the guest ranch

All city folk looked aard, but most of that uneasiness fled by day five

When Nash reached a couple of women who’d already tacked up, obviously comfortable with horses, he laid on as thick of an old est accent as possible and called to the up the cattle”

The toled and made eyes at him He’d bet money they weren’t there for an adventure They were there for hi he had become used to as a bull rider The sport had once been his entire world He’d trained Hard He’d risen to the top of the standings by the age of twenty Sure, over the years, he dipped down in the rankings, but then he trained harder, got stronger, and rose in the standings again In fact, he was at top of his gae of twenty-seven when Bruiser, a nasty bull, changed Nash’s life In less than five seconds, his dream was over His spine injury took a year of physiotherapy to recover froer wanted him