Taming Rafe by Susan May Warren

Author:Susan May Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Romance, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

“He’s going to do what?” Kat sat in the stands, trying to comprehend Stefanie’s words, tossing the what-ifs through her brain.

What if Rafe rode a bull again and got hurt? What if she told him how she felt, how she had turned into a fan of the real Rafe Noble, and begged him not to ride? What if she stayed here, started a life as Kitty Russell?

She didn’t want to think about the what-ifs.

Kat looked for Rafe in the cluster of cowboys by the announcers’ booth. “Why does he suddenly feel the need to risk his neck? Is it the money?”

“I doubt it. The prize tonight is a whopping two thousand dollars.” Stefanie glanced at Lincoln Cash, and Kat thought she saw a slight blush on her face. “He was just eating dinner, and he looked over, saw you, and all of a sudden, he’s GetRowdy’s famous bull rider in action.”

Kat had thought Rafe looked more like the poster boy for the Boys & Girls Clubs. She’d watched him help the kids ride the sheep, and she’d turned all gooey inside.

She needed to get some media out here to shoot footage of him playing with the kids. She even had visions of flying some of the healthier Mercy Doctors patients to the Silver Buckle so Rafe could teach them to rope. The fresh air and wide spaces certainly wouldn’t hurt their treatment. She knew Rafe would make the perfect Breckenridge Foundation fund-raiser. Soon he’d know it too. If he lived that long, the idiot.

“He’s going to hurt himself,” Kat said almost to herself. Rafe’s words the day he’d taught her to ride the bull zeroed into her thoughts. “He could get killed.”

Stefanie shook her head. “He’s about as hardheaded as those bulls he rides.”

“What’s wrong with him?” Lincoln Cash asked.

“Rafe’s injured—or at least was injured,” Kat answered, not elaborating on the circumstances behind Rafe’s wounds. It didn’t matter anymore.

“He had knee surgery just a couple of weeks ago,” Stefanie added.

“Are we talking about Rafe Noble? bull rider?” Cash asked.

“You know him?” Stefanie asked.

Kat stood up, searching for Rafe. Why would he—?

“Rafe and I are old friends. He consulted on a movie I did a few years ago. If I remember right, he and I were interested in the same makeup artist.” Cash smiled.

Kat looked at Lincoln. Did Rafe think that Lincoln might be interested in . . . her? Now she was really making leaps.

Which was why his ego had kicked in. “Excuse me,” she said, stepping down the bleachers.

“Kat . . . ,” Stefanie said.

Kat ignored her, a strange feeling moving her legs, gathering momentum. That stiff-necked cowboy. He had nothing to prove. Not to her at least.

She lengthened her stride as she wove between horses and trailers toward a group of riders attaching numbers to their vests. Beyond them, at the contestants’ table, she spotted Rafe arguing with a judge.

“I’ll pay the fee tomorrow; you know it. Just let me draw a bull tonight.” Rafe leaned against the table.

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