Toro (The Hell Yeah Series) by Sable Hunter & Ryan O'Leary

Author:Sable Hunter & Ryan O'Leary [Hunter, Sable]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-24T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER

EIGHT

Chewing on her lower lip, Isabella sat at Benedict’s dining table, holding a cup of coffee. She couldn’t tell what he was thinking. Their coming together had been explosive, but he had questions.

Questions she hoped she could answer to his satisfaction.

Bull took a deep breath and sat down across from Isabella. “You know, I heard you call me Benedict before I left Terra Dura. Right before I got the phone call about Luke.”

“I slipped up.” She searched his face, so afraid he was about to send her home that she didn’t know what to do.

Bull drained his cup, setting it down on the table a little harder than necessary. “Why the deception? Why did you lie to me?”

She winced at the word. Lie. “I’m sorry, I didn’t intend to.” Isabella could feel panic rising in her chest. This was important, she had to make him understand. “When we first met, I was all swept up in trying to show people that bullfighting didn’t have to be a blood sport. My father and mother died for this.”

Bull shook his head. “I heard you say they were murdered. Were you serious?”

“Yes.” She told him how her father and mother had been found. “No one was ever arrested, but many believed a rival could have killed them. My father was influential in the sport and I think they were killed because he was laying down his sword, changing the way he fought the bulls. His entourage knew this, those closest to him knew this, but the public did not. He was to make the announcement at a major bullfight in Mexico City. There would’ve been a great uproar, many would have been affected. I always thought someone who felt their own success would be damaged stopped him. I think it was one of his own men.”

Bull frowned. “Did you ever share your suspicions with anyone?”

“Yes, I have talked to the authorities and to my uncle.” She traced the top of her coffee cup with her fingertip. “There was no proof.”

“Your father would have fought the bulls the way you do, if he had lived?”

“Yes, my mother felt strongly about this, as did I. He grew to share our beliefs and wanted to change his life and the sport, if he could.” Isabella nodded sadly. “He was a good man.”

Bull searched her beautiful face, a better understanding of her motives dawning. “This is why La Diosa was born, to honor your father and to pick up the mantle he dropped when he died?”

“Yes, exactly. The sport is changing. Already some cities are banning the killing of the bulls. Many still hold onto the old ways, but there is a movement to overturn tradition.” She gave him a small smile. “I am trying to change the world.”

“By placing your life in danger, every time you get in the ring,” Bull growled. “I don’t like it.”

“I am good at what I do.”

“Yes, you are. You saved my ass, but I don’t think I could survive watching you do much more of that.

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