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My eyes are desperately searching the room when my sister’s bouquet hits me in the chest. I instinctively wrap my arms around it and look up in shock as the whole room cheers.
Everyone is staring at me while clapping and hollering.
My cheeks burn red as my sister skips over with a big smile on her face.
“Looks like you’ll be the next one to fall.”
I swallow hard as I look down at the flowers.
I wouldn’t mind that so much.
IfI get to fall into that gorgeous mountain man’s arms.
ChapterTwo
Megan
“That’smy horse?” I ask with a gulp as I look at the big brown wiry creature. His head is up and he keeps looking around with wide fired-up eyes like he’s even more unsure of this than I am.
“Oh, you’re going to love Thunderbolt,” Carrie, the co-owner of the Greene Mountain Stables says. She opens the gate to the paddock and tries to get him, but the horse takes off in a full sprint. She turns around with a nervous laugh.
“Maybe I’ll just wait on the bus,” I say as my stomach does a weird flippy thing. “He doesn’t look too into it.”
“Thunderboltlovespeople,” she says as she tries to chase after him.
He doesn’t look like he loves people. He looks like he’s wishing we all went extinct.
I was up too late partying last night and I woke up with a wicked hangover. I spent the whole day with my exhausted nauseous ass in bed, so I’m the last one to arrive at the group activity of horseback riding through the mountains. I missed the shuttle bus and had to take a cab.
Thunderbolt was the last horse left for obvious reasons.
“It’s okay,” I call out to Carrie as she slips in the mud while desperately trying to corral the horse who wants nothing to do with her. “It looks like it’s going to rain anyway.”
It’s late in the afternoon and the sky is a horror show of dark rain clouds. It looks like it’s going to open up and rain down Armageddon on all of us at any second.
“I checked the weather,” Carrie says as she sprints after the horse through the mud with a forced smile on her face, “it’s not supposed to rain.”
“Have you checked the sky?” I mutter to myself.
I turn and look at my group. About a dozen people from the wedding signed up for the activity and they’re all watching atop their nice calm horses.
My sister Ashley is probably wrapped up in bed right now enjoying her new groom Dylan. I wish I was doing the same. Perhaps with that gorgeous Park Ranger from last night. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about him.
Carrie stops in the middle of the muddy paddock and forces out a laugh as Thunderbolt hurries away from her. The giant horse’s back is all tense and he’s looking like he’s ready to bolt at any second.
“Why is he named Thunderbolt?” Richard asks from atop his very well-behaved patient horse.
“I’m not sure,” Carrie says as she puts her hands on her hips. She’s trying to catch her breath from all that effort. “Tyler would know.”
“Tyler?” I ask.
All of my group takes in a collective gulp of air as they stare behind me in shock. I turn and watch as a giant man with a long brown beard and intense brown eyes comes walking over. He’s got big tattooed arms and looks like he was spawned out of these mountains. He heads into the paddock, kisses Carrie on the lips, and then calmly walks over to the horse.
The horse doesn’t move when he comes over. Even other species seem to recognize and respect his dominant nature.
He takes the reins and walks the horse over to me.
“He’s all yours,” he says in a deep voice.
