Finding Mr. Right Now by Meg Benjamin

Author:Meg Benjamin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Salt Box, romantic comedy, reality show, Colorado, TV producer, mountains, small town
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-06-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Paul surveyed the Salt Box rodeo arena from the side where the bachelors had been herded. He’d gone to rodeos when he was a kid—the ones at the Denver Stock Show and Cheyenne Frontier Days—but this was different. Much smaller for one thing.

The interior was the usual long oval, with a covered grandstand at one end and bleachers extending along the sides. A concrete walkway along the bottom tier was separated from the performance area by a cyclone fence. Another fence spread across the far end, separating the animal pens from the arena. He could see and hear cattle and horses muttering and complaining. The sharp animal smell filled the air.

He could also see a few faces he recognized on the benches several yards down from him. Clark Denham sat with a vaguely familiar woman who might have been one of the waitresses at the Blarney Stone. Al Monteith from the garage leaned against the fence, watching a couple of clowns go through their paces. Al’s mother, whose name temporarily escaped him, was sitting with another vaguely familiar figure. When that familiar figure turned his head toward the other side, Paul recognized Dick Sonnenfeld. Mrs. Monteith caught his gaze and waved merrily. Sonnenfeld confined himself to a smirk.

Paul turned back toward the far end of the arena. Riders in jeans, elaborate cowboy shirts and Stetsons were milling around outside the main gate, waiting for the opening parade. He could see Ronnie in their midst, wearing a black shirt embroidered with neon-bright red roses, along with a Stetson so white it made his teeth ache.

Actually, the whole thing made his teeth ache, not that there was anything he could do about it one way or the other. They still hadn’t been told what they’d be doing as part of their group rodeo “date.” Ronnie was riding in the parade, and the rest of them were supposed to sit in the grandstand and cheer for her. It didn’t strike Paul as much of an evening, but he figured there was undoubtedly more to come.

At the moment, he was looking for Monica. Two days of limited contact while he was forced to make inane conversation with Ronnie on camera hadn’t exactly improved his mood. He needed to talk to Monica. He also needed to touch her. In fact, he needed to do more than that, and he intended to do it soon, even if it took some maneuvering. As long as he was one of Ronnie’s suitors, he was under observation by the crew, the other bachelors, and probably some freelance paparazzi who’d love to sell some shots to the tabloids. They always had people with cell phone cameras snapping pictures on the sidelines.

He really wished Ronnie would just vote him off the show and get it over with. Then he could start devoting some serious time to Monica. Surely Ronnie realized how far he was from being her Mr. Right.

Didn’t she?

A commotion at one end of the arena was the cue that the parade was about to start.

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