Under a Rodeo Moon by Roni Adams

Author:Roni Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary, western, spicy
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2012-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

From the stands, Carrie watched as her worst fear played out. She couldn’t scream. All she could do was stare as the bull charged Dusty so hard in the back that he was flung into the wall of the stands. Then the bull turned and walked back to the chute where the clowns waited to lock him in.

Dusty lay in a crumpled heap on the ground, and she tore out of the stands, racing toward the arena. Pushing people out of the way, she shoved and screamed until they let her through. Security attempted to prevent her from getting any further, but fortunately Free was there and, within seconds, she was ushered into the inner circle with his brother and sister. The paramedics were feverishly working over Dusty. He lay still and unconscious.

As they loaded him into the waiting ambulance, someone pushed her from behind.

“She’s to ride with him.” Grey’s gruff voice brooked no argument.

She was shocked by his brother’s declaration. The other man had never cared much for her even when she and Dusty were a couple.

“We’ll follow in my truck,” he yelled and slammed the ambulance doors shut.

Carrie settled in the back next to Dusty, out of the way of the two medics. She grabbed his hand and held on even though he was still unconscious. The tears flowed unchecked down her face, but she tried to keep positive. He wasn’t gored, although there was a gash on his forehead that the medics had already pressed gauze against. Other than that, there were no visible signs of injury. What the pounding could have done inside him, they had no way of knowing.

Halfway to the hospital, he came to and looked at her. She clung to his hand and tried to smile. “We’re almost there. Hang on, Dusty. We’ll be at the hospital soon.”

“My times.” He groaned and closed his eyes again. “What were my times?”

Carrie shook her head. He could have been killed out there, and all he cared about was if he did better than the next idiot to get on a raging bull. Still, she knew better than to hold out on him. “I’m sure you took first.”

He opened his eyes again. “Why are you here?”

She couldn’t say anything. For the past several performances, she’d stayed far away, but tonight she couldn’t. Something had urged her to be in the arena tonight. This would have been so much worse if she’d heard it on the evening news. “Just rest.”

The ambulance stopped and within moments Dusty was whisked through the emergency room, and she was handed a clipboard of paperwork.

“Are you his wife?” the nurse at the desk asked.

She shook his head. “No, a friend. Just a friend.”

“We need to notify his family.”

At that moment, his brother and sister, with their respective spouses, burst through the door. Carrie handed Free the clipboard and stepped back. This wasn’t her place. She watched his sister and her husband deal with the necessary hospital registration. When they finished, they walked back to her side.

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