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All right, so he’d taken a bad fall Crusher, the best bull in the PBR, had obviously bested him That bastard

Nash lay in the soft dirt, trying to piece together the last seconds He recalled tightening the rope around his hand, the hot adrenaline pulsing through his veins He reainst his head He even recalled giving the nod to open the gates After that, it was anybody’s guess how he’d ended up in the dirt

His gaze finally connected with a wo down her face

He closed his eyes

Fuck, this was bad

A soft cry returned hi Gus had co him intently Whenever Nash went back into the past, Gus seemed to be there to pull him out of it He wasn’t sure what he would have done without his loyal dog He reached down and stroked Gus’s big square head “Things don’t need to be so serious I’ll land where I land Right now, I’ve got the guest ranch I’ood with that”

Megan gave his call for serious emotions” She paused then, and, like she’d always proven to do, got right to the heart of theto have to face what happened to your career and find a neay forward that makes you happy”

He stared at her, at a loss for words He never used to be that way He had a drea a world champion bull rider

“Lunch,” Beckett suddenly called, snapping Nash out of the spell Megan put him under

“Thank God I’ lately, but whatever” She pressed a quick kiss to Nash’s lips then strode toward the others, with Gus following her

Nash stared after her, a thousand things running through his mind Their lives were cha

nging There was no stopping that He wanted to change with her Be the man she needed him to be

But above all that, it occurred to hie And soon

A couple of hours later, otten she even had hurt as theythe way She really needed to get in the saddletime For the past two years, she’d had her head down and worked her ass off to ard, she understood Nash perfectly He worked hard now to uest ranch a success to save their father’s coan knew another truth: Nash was running from his past

That truth was there in his eyes—the demons that he couldn’t hide fro he stood for and wanted ripped away Those dean wasn’t foolishly falling for the hot cowboy She had already fallen for that hot cowboy, and Nash could hurt her