The Reluctant Wrangler by Roxann Delaney

Author:Roxann Delaney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-08-25T20:00:00+00:00

WHEN MAC APPEARED to help her with the riding lesson the next morning, they decided to forget the whole thing and hope Kirby put it behind him, too.

The boys claimed their attention, ready to start the lesson, so there was no time left for discussion. After drawing straws to see who would go first, the boys mounted their horses, walking them around the corral in pairs, without problems. But Nikki felt different when around Mac, even though she knew it could all be for nothing. She couldn’t get her hopes up that he had some kind of feeling for her. He didn’t know her, at least, not everything.

Confusion was the word for the day. She wondered if she should tell Tanner she was his sister, but her mother’s warning still echoed in her mind. There was always the possibility that he wouldn’t want her to stay at the Bent Tree when he learned the truth, and she didn’t know if she could handle the rejection, not to mention her mother’s I-told-you-so.

By midweek, the kiss she’d shared with Mac was almost forgotten. Almost. Nikki had seen such an improvement with the boys’ riding that she had an idea. She wanted to run her idea by Mac first before approaching Jules about it, but Tanner had borrowed him for the day.

“What an improvement!” Jules said when the morning lesson was over.

Nikki grinned, unable to hide how proud she was of the boys. She joined Jules at the fence and watched the boys as they dressed down their horses, taking the equipment into the barn. “We switched to two lessons a day, at least for now,” she explained. “The boys are loving it.”

Jules laughed as she watched them. “That’s pretty obvious.” As the last of them disappeared into the barn, she turned to Nikki. “Have you had a chance to look over the EAP information?”

Nikki felt a prick of guilt. Knowing she didn’t have the money or the time, she hadn’t been eager to learn more about something she could probably never do. “Not really,” she said in all honesty. “The riding lessons have taken up most of my time.” She took a few steps away before offering an apologetic smile. “And I’d better go make sure the boys are cleaning the tack right.”

“When you have time,” Jules called to her as she started for the barn.

“I will,” Nikki called back. Someday. Maybe.

In the barn she watched the boys clean and check the equipment, giving encouragement and a few pointers on things they missed. They were nearly finished when she heard the sound of boot heels tapping concrete and saw that Mac had returned. The boys saw him, too, and called out greetings to him.

“I’m glad you’re here,” Nikki told him when the boys had finished and gone to wash up for lunch. “I have this idea I wanted to run by you.”

He folded his arms and settled against the nearest stall. “Go ahead. I’m listening.”

She smiled. “The boys have improved so much that I’d like to reward them.

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