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“Why are you always running away from me?”
She’d turned away and started walking; he and Buzz were keeping pace with her inside the paddock.
“I’m not running from you.”
“Prove it then. Come and let me show you what we’ve done here.”
“No, thanks.”
“You just said you weren’t running from me, and yet that’s exactly what you’re doing.”
She looked up at him. The man had no right to be that hot.
“I play in your b-bar, if I was avoiding you I wouldn’t do that.”
“You’re only around me when there’s company.”
Bailey didn’t answer him because it was the truth, they both knew it, so she kept walking.
“Come and meet the horses. We have plenty more on the pasture out back, and stables. Let me show you around, Bailey. Please.”
“I was just going for a walk, but thanks.”
“Do you still ride?” he asked her.
She nodded.
“Would you like to now?”
Bailey battled down the surge of excitement at the thought of riding again. “No, but thanks.”
“Why are you saying no when you clearly want to say yes?”
“I’m not!”
“You are. So unless you’re out of practice or scared, what’s stopping you—other than it’s me who’s offering.”
Bailey felt heat creep into her cheeks.
“I can ride, as you very well know, and I’m not scared—”
“So that leaves me.”
He was smiling at her now, teasing her.
“It has nothing to do with you, and you h-have an overinflated opinion of yourself.”
Shut up, Bailey.
“Very possibly. But we’re friends, so no reason at all why you can’t come for a ride with your friend.”
“We were friends.”
He tilted his head to one side, and studied her.
“I didn’t realize there was a time limit on our friendship.”
“Neither did I.”
