Cody (American Extreme Bull Riders Tour Book 4) by Megan Crane

Author:Megan Crane [Crane, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2017-05-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Cody liked to win.

He liked winning. He liked whiskey. He liked women.

Usually one led into the next, a celebratory slide into sin he greatly enjoyed partaking of along the endless road trip that was life on tour.

But for some reason, Skylar alone seemed to take the place of his usual variety pack, and he liked that too.

More than liked it.

Friday night, after he’d rode a sweet 89 like it was nothing and put himself in the lead, he’d seen her up there in the stands. And that was new. Not happening to recognize a woman he’d been with, but actually finding her and liking it when he did. Like she was some kind of touchstone.

The truth was, he’d never felt anything like that before.

His mother had certainly never wasted her time watching her only son try to kill himself riding bulls. Growing up, she’d acted like it was a phase he was going through. When he’d turned eighteen and joined the tour, she’d assured him that he’d end up crippled like all the bull riders she’d ever heard of—a friend of a friend’s cousin twice removed or any old cowboy telling lies in a dive bar—and more, that she’d wash her hands of him if he did because she already had enough on her plate with Todd and the girls.

Cody had taken that as a clear indication that he was not a man who needed to stock the stands with friendly faces. And these days he took it as a point of pride that he was so solitary. He didn’t cart family and friends around with him, much less girlfriends or pretty pieces of tail. And not only because he didn’t do girlfriends. He didn’t need it, he would have said. Better the stands were empty and he still won, because he was making his mark. He wanted to go down in history, not show off for a girl.

And anyway, friendly faces were lies. He knew what happened when friendly faces turned vicious, as soon as the door was closed and nobody else could see. More than one person had told him he had trust issues, of course. He preferred to think of it as straight-up practicality.

But there was no denying the fact that he liked looking up from the dirt in Billings to see Skylar’s blue eyes open wide and filled with something that looked a whole lot like pride as they slapped to his.

Cody would have said that the back of a bull was the only thing in the world that could silence the crowd and make him forget where he was. That sweet, brutal dance he’d been doing so well for all these years. He would have said that was the only possible way to shut off his head and make everything in him go still and right.

But it turned out that maybe Skylar had the same kind of magic in her.

“Maybe I should get your number,” he told her in a low, teasing kind of way, later that night.

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