Getting Rowdy (To Tame a Burly Man Book 5) by Frankie Love

Author:Frankie Love [Love, Frankie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

8

JUNE

The Burly County Spring Fair isn’t technically at the start of spring, but a lot of people of the town don’t consider the season to really start until it happens.

It’s a pretty big deal. We go to the biggest stadium in the county and people from all over pour in.

It’s only the second time I’ve performed at one of these, and I’m still nervous.

“You’ll do fine,” Jennings says from behind me, massaging my shoulders. “They don’t matter. All that matters is you and those barrels.”

“I’m sure my brother thought he was fine too until he met that pole spine-first.”

“Do you have any younger siblings you’ll be incensed to find are having a relationship with someone without you knowing about it?”

“I’m the youngest child, so no.”

“Then as I said, you’ll be fine.”

Danny will be a spectator for a while. He’s up there in the crowd now, still drugged out of his mind from the pain. But he’s smiling and celebrating, even if he’s in a wheelchair.

Because everyone acted so quickly and he didn’t have any complications, the outlook is overall pretty good for him. It’ll still take months of recovery, then months of physical therapy, but he’ll be walking again. If he works hard, he’ll be riding again, even. After what happened, I wouldn’t blame him if he never wanted to see a bull again, but he wants to be here today, and he made his desires loud and clear. Being back in the sun will be good for him, the doctors said.

The crowd is filled with a bunch of other familiar faces too. Jennings’ family is there, his four recently married brothers are all there with their wives. I could always sense a bit of jealousy from him when he talked about them, and I do wonder if he intends to stop being the odd man out in the family sooner rather than later.

His cousins, the Roughs, all came over from Home too. That looks like a wild family. Seven kids, their spouses, and some of them have children too. Both the Rowdys and the Roughs value family so much, anyone should be thankful to be adopted into their ranks.

“June Jenkins, you’re up,” the backstage manager calls out to me as I go to climb onto my horse.

I’m not that shaken by what happened to Danny. I’m confident in what I can do, and I’ve done it hundreds of times. My mind is focused on the show, and I’m not going to make any mistakes. Music fills the arena as I ride out, and the crowd erupts. I urge Fillia to start her run, bending her around the tight corners of the course laid out for me.

It’s a rush doing this in front of so many people. I look at my brother in the stands and then at Jennings, both of them giving me such stern approval and among the loudest of those cheering.

I could get used to this bit of stardom. I never wanted to be a worldwide megastar, but I can see what celebrities get out of this sort of thing.

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