Handsome Cowboy by Lori Wilde & Liz Alvin

Author:Lori Wilde & Liz Alvin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humorous romance, Cowboy romance, clean and wholesome, matchmaker romance, sweet romance, ranch romance
Publisher: L&L
Published: 2019-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“Thanks a lot for changing your mind,” Steve said, pumping Jared’s hand. “I know my brother’s family is going to have a great time here.”

Jared scuffed the ground with one boot heel. Glad to know someone was going to enjoy themselves because he sure as shooting wasn’t going to. He’d just agreed to host Steve’s brother and his family for a week. No, host was the wrong word. He was going to entertain them, like some kind of six-foot-tall amusement park.

Now, not only did his students mostly consist of women who were more interested in coming on to him than in learning how to barrel race. They also consisted of dude ranchers, people who wanted to spend a week on a ranch so they could play cowboy.

Looking downright gleeful, Steve climbed back into his purple minivan. “I really appreciate this, Jared. My brother is tickled pink.” Then, with a wide grin, he added, “And I don’t care what anyone says about you, you’re one heck of a guy.” With that as his final comment, Steve honked his horn, waved frantically out of the window and drove away like a big grape rolling down the driveway.

“Dang,” Jared muttered. “You’re one sorry excuse for a businessman.” After Steve had disappeared, Jared headed up the porch steps to his house. This rodeo school was turning out to be just about everything else but a rodeo school. So far, his school was a combination dude ranch and ladies’ club.

He dropped into one of the rocking chairs on his porch. But what choice did he have? Setting up a rodeo school took money. Lots of money. Money he didn’t have.

He’d hoped students would sign up, and he could reinvest their tuitions into upgrading the school. Unfortunately, he’d discovered there were two types of rodeo school customers: the ones with money, who immediately signed up with the established schools, and the ones without two dimes, who immediately gravitated to him.

He already had two guys, Stan and Dwayne, who were helping out in exchange for lessons. He didn’t need any more down-and-out students.

He needed students with money. So at least for now, he’d work with the local ladies, even if they had about as much interest in learning to rope and ride as they did in splitting the atom. And he’d let Steve’s brother and his brood stay at the ranch, because at this point, money was money.

Leaning back in his chair, he watched a truck pull in his driveway. The way his luck was going, this was probably some local dad wanting to know if Jared did pony rides for children’s birthday parties.

But thankfully, once the truck got closer, he saw it was Chase Barrett. Good. Chase might not be a prospective student, but he also wasn’t about to ask Jared to teach him to “ride the pretty horsies.” No, if he had to guess, Jared would wager Chase was here on an official big brother mission. The Barrett brothers were probably hearing all sorts of things about him and Leigh.

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