The Touchdown by K. M. Bishop

Author:K. M. Bishop [Bishop, K. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Ro

“Are you ok?” I asked.

Bobby had been a bit quiet that day. He was usually so much more talkative, more upbeat, but today he seemed despondent. It wasn’t his usual style.

“Yeah,” Bobby said. “I’m just afraid I might have disappointed you. And that hurts me deeply.”

I smiled and laid my head on his shoulder. “You don’t have to worry about that. I’m not disappointed. It means a lot to me that you stood up for me the way you did, but I would never want you to put yourself in harm’s way for my honor. But I do value that you did it.”

Bobby smiled. “I will do anything for you. Every time I think about that jerk putting his hands on you, holding a knife to you—I want to go back there and do it all over again and beat his head in. I feel like what I did is not enough, but there really isn’t anything else I can do.”

“You’ve done more than enough. It was fine. I am relieved that none of them will admit it was you guys. They could have easily ratted you out. Why is that?”

Bobby smiled. “Call it male pride, the guy code—whatever. Basically, they are licking their wounds and trying to save face to protect their wounded egos.”

“That is so macho,” I teased.

“Yeah, it is,” Bobby laughed. “But the other side of that is they are probably planning some sort of retaliation. If they go to the cops and tell them it was us, then they look weak and everyone will know that they got their asses handed to them by us. That is not good. Plus they won’t be able to do anything back to us to regain their pride if we are being handled by the authorities.”

“So, now you have to live in fear of the payback. Great.” I sighed.

“I’m not living in fear of anything. If they want to bring it then I’ll be waiting for them. They won’t intimidate me.”

I smiled. “We are so much more alike than we should probably be.”

Bobby laughed. “You think?”

I leaned back and looked around. The day was perfect. The weather was still pretty warm, but you could feel a slight chill in the air. Fall was definitely in full swing, but it hadn’t quite landed with its full force quite yet. Still, the colder weather was coming. And with that the football season would be ending as well.

I was almost ready for it to be done.

Bobby and I had gone out to my grandfather’s ranch to spend the day. We’d both decided to bag our classes and just get away from things for a bit. My grandfather owned a horse ranch which he’d operated since he was in his twenties. I’d practically grown up there. I loved it. Ever since I’d decided that I wanted to be a rider, I’d come there as often as I could. I eventually became a bit too tall to seriously consider riding, but it was still something that I loved to do when I had the chance.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.