The Bull Rider's Brother : A cowboy crush story (The Shawnee Valley Series Book 1) by Lynn Collins

Author:Lynn Collins [Collins, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Lizzie stuffed the booster seat back into her car before catching up with James and JR. She didn’t know what kind of fireworks would happen when James broke the news, but she wanted to be ready to head home if things got heated. James hadn’t been happy about handing the seat over. Still, for all James’s talk about being there for JR, if Jesse got stubborn about this, Lizzie didn’t want JR to end up in the middle of hers and the brothers’ ghosts, hearing things he didn’t need to hear.

“I get a corndog for lunch. Right?” JR watched the crowd buzzing around them.

“If that’s what you want.” James put his arm around Lizzie when she walked up. “Right, Lizzie?”

“The boy would eat nothing else if I’d let him. When we went to the state fair last year, he ate five in one day.” Lizzie glanced around the grounds. From what she could see, most of the town was already inside while the rest of it was with them in the parking lot. “Big crowd today.”

“That’s good. Means the purses will be bigger than advertised.” James watched the barrel racing as they stood in line to pay their entrance fees.

“Does Jesse make much money riding?” Lizzie pulled JR closer as a horse and rider stepped close to the ticket line on their way back to the stables.

“He didn’t at first. We ate a lot of fast food value meals at first. You wouldn’t believe how much food twenty bucks will buy if you’re careful.” James swung JR up on his shoulders. “Can you see better?”

“I can see the corndog stand,” JR crowed.

“He’s got his priorities straight.” James laughed, holding on to JR’s legs. He returned to Lizzie’s question. “After that first year we knew which rodeos to avoid and which ones paid. Once Jesse hit his first championship, we were in the money.”

“He makes more money because he’s a champion? I didn’t know the rodeos worked that way.” There was a lot she didn’t know about the business of rodeo.

James shook his head. “They don’t. He makes more because sponsors pay all his expenses, including my salary, and he keeps the purse money.” He shrugged. “The kicker is you have to have that championship buckle before the big guys will look at you.”

“Do you like managing his career?” Lizzie searched his face, wondering what she expected to find.

James’s lips twisted. “Truthfully? When we were building the ‘Jesse’ brand, it was challenging. I liked that. Now it’s a lot of travel and public relations bull—”

“James, little ears.” She pointed her chin toward JR.

“Sorry. All the...” he hesitated trying to find an appropriate word, “stuff you have to do for the sponsors is pretty overwhelming. The saying ‘there’s no free lunch’ is especially true in the rodeo world. Part of Jesse’s job is to speak to corporate types in suits and ties while they ooh and ahh around the bull penned up in their parking lots. He’s their trick pony to pull out and show off.

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