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“It’s great seeing you, Kipton,” Hunter said as he leaned in and kissed my cheek. I turned to the camera and fanned myself. Everyone would assume I was acting, of course, but the moment his lips touched my skin, my entire body hummed to life.
“My, oh my…aren’t our single ladies lucky?”
Hunter laughed, and I faced him once more. “Let’s get to know you a bit, shall we, Hunter?”
He lifted his hands and replied, “Let’s.”
“Before we show viewers your intro piece, tell us a little about yourself.”
Hunter nodded and kept his eyes on me the entire time he spoke. “I’m twenty-one, a senior at the University of Montana in Missoula. I’m majoring in business accounting, and I’m also part of the UM Rodeo, where I compete in team roping.”
“Good-looking and a cowboy, ladies,” I said to the camera. When I glanced at Hunter, he was blushing. “Are you the header or the heeler?”
“My position is header.”
“Growing up on a ranch here in Montana, and being the son of a retired professional bull rider, that surely had some kind of impact on your decision to do what you do.”
He nodded. “It did, absolutely.”
“Do you ride bulls also?”
Giving me a wickedly seductive smile, he replied, “I do, but I’m better on a horse than a bull.”
“It shows. You and your partner, Dustin, are rated number one on the college circuit right now, correct?”
Another blush. My God, the women are going to go crazy for this man.
“Yes, ma’am, that’s right, we are.”
Turning to the camera, I laughed. “Ma’am? Lord, I feel twenty years older.”
A nervous bubble of laughter came from Hunter.
“And with that, how about we take a deeper look at our bachelor?”
The red light faded away and the prerecorded piece about Hunter began.
“I didn’t mean to insult you, Kipton. I won’t say ma’am again,” Hunter started just as a few people rushed over to pull him away. Before I could even utter a word, I was being pulled along behind him.
“I feel like I’m going to trip in these heels,” I said with a laugh.
“Nonsense,” Georgiana stated as she walked beside of me. “You strutted your stuff in a bathing suit in heels higher than this, in front of millions of people.”
“That’s just it. I was strutting, not almost running.”
“Don’t run!” Tricia cried out. “You’ll sweat and ruin the makeup.”
We made it to the huge conference room with a couple of minutes to spare. I walked over to Hunter and grinned. “I think if we have to keep doing that, I’ll lose those last ten pounds I’ve been hoping to drop.”
He looked at me with a confused expression on his face. “You’re perfect, Kip. You don’t need to lose any weight.”
I blinked at him, not sure what to say, when someone shouted, “Back in thirty seconds.”
“By the way,” I said, as I stood on my mark. “I wasn’t insulted. Just trying to keep things light.”
He looked at me and winked. “Good.”
We both faced the cameras as they started to count down from ten. This time, it was Jack in my ear. I saw Hunter reach up and mess with his own earpiece. I’d been practicing with mine the last couple of days, so I’d gotten used to it.
