I toy with the brim of my Stetson. “I don’t mind waiting.”
“Rainee was that way, too. Not interested in me at first, but I didn’t give up,” Jude says. “Of course, it was easier for her to fall for me since I’m handsome as fuck.”
I laugh.
“He’s right.” Flint gestures to Jude. “Not the handsome part. But Like Rainee, Stormy’s been through a lot. Don’t give up.”
“I don’t intend to.”
We promise to meet again tomorrow and then I’m on my way to Stormy.
She’s already at the rodeo’s office trailer by the time I arrive. She stands and comes toward me the moment I step in.
“Rainee told me that Flint’s your brother.”
I remove my Stetson and set it on a short bookshelf close to the door. “Yeah, it’s been a whirlwind kind of day.”
“I already made coffee.”
She links her fingers, acting nervous.
“Alright,” I say, pulling out the same chair where I sat last night.
“About the mugshot and all those comments…”
So that’s what’s bothering her. “I silenced my phone, it’s no big deal.”
“To you,” she says.
“What do you mean?”
“Did you read those comments?”
I shake my head. “I don’t give two cents what people I don’t know think about me.”
“Well, I did. I read through some of them.”
She sounds mad. Almost jealous.
My hopes perk up. “And?”
“Some of them were saying they wanted to…you know.”
“No, I don’t know since I didn’t read them.”
“A good portion of them were saying they wanted to sleep with you. A few of them said they’d drive down here to ride that bad boy cowboy. They were talking about blowjobs and?—”
I laugh and she stops speaking.
“You think it’s funny that they want to have sex with you?”
“I think it’s funny that you’re mad about women who never had a chance and never will.”
She runs her hand through her hair. “I am mad as hell.”
“Why?”
“I…don’t know.”
