Her Knight, Her Protector: a western romance (Rodeo Knights Book 1) by Lisa Mondello

Author:Lisa Mondello [Mondello, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: contemporary romance, western romance, cowboy romance, series romance
Published: 2015-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

They spent the next few days making trips to Jesse’s brother Michael’s ranch in Montana. As suspected, none of the hands were happy about the changes in rules on the ranch, or that Jesse had been watching their every move in the bunkhouse.

Carly couldn’t really blame them. Jesse had been right. She should have been honest about the death threats right from the beginning. Colin, more than any of them, was most worried when he’d heard about the letters.

She couldn’t deny that she was comforted by the fact that Jesse was sleeping in the next room. She hadn’t realized just how tired she’d become by trying to handle all that had been going on these last few weeks by herself. But it was more than that. The memory of the way Jesse looked at her and smiled when they were riding still melted her heart. She’d lay awake in bed just thinking of the feel of his hands on her waist as he gently helped her down from her horse. Not that he needed to. Carly had grown up taking spills from many a horse in her lifetime. It went part and parcel with living on a ranch.

But more than his strength and his smile, she couldn’t shake the way he’d been vulnerable with her while talking about his father. Most of the men Carly knew, including her own dad, kept their feelings hid. It had always made her think she was weak for showing her emotions, that she’d be judged for them. But Jesse wore them on his sleeve without any shame.

Yes, Jesse Knight was a different kind of man. A gentlemen and a gentle soul filled with honor.

They were getting ready for their next rodeo with fifteen of her bulls in competition. Rodeo day was always an exciting day and today was no different.

The trailer with the bulls that were going to compete in Montana had already left the ranch and stayed the night at Jesse’s brother Michael’s ranch. Colin had gone with them, but didn’t know where they were going until Michael had arrived with Stoney to drive the trailer up to the arena. The rest of the hands stayed behind, leaving a lot of talk. But Doris wasted no time enlisting both Thad and Rod to help her with her monthly grocery shopping. All that was left was for her to get ready and drive the few hours up to Bozeman for the competition.

Carly sat at the vanity table her mother had picked out for her when she was just eight years old. Every girl needs a vanity, she’d said. Carly had been too young then to understand what she meant. Back then she used it as a place to draw pictures with her crayons. It was only long after her mother had died that Carly appreciated the gift her mother had given her. There wasn’t a day she sat at the vanity that she didn’t think of some special moment with her.

She opened the jar of her favorite hand cream and saw that it was full, which made her think for a minute.

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