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And she had. Incredibly. It turned out there might be one thing in life she wasn’t useless at after all. Suck on that, Catrina.
If only she knew what to do about Hunter.
That night between them at the hotel had been… well, she’d say unforgettable, but apparently Hunter had completely forgotten it.
That wasn’t fair. He’d been doped up all to hell. But that wasn’t the worst part.
While it had been happening, had it been her he was having sex with, or his ex? That was the question that plagued her. She’d been so certain that night he’d been thinking of his ex. But on the endless replay of the night, remembering how he’d looked her in the eyes and how present he’d seemed…
Then again, he couldn’t recall a goddamned moment of it, so how present could he have really been?
Ugh, she was going to drive herself crazy. She’d been snippy all week because of it. She’d overheard Liam whispering that she must be on the rag. It was a testament to her newfound self-control that she hadn’t crossed the room and smacked him upside the head.
If anyone was getting the brunt of her bad mood, though, it was Hunter. But how could she look at him and not hear his words in the back of her head? Love you, babe. Which may or may not have been directed at her.
She shook her head as she approached the next cow in the field. She had some truly thrilling work today. TB testing cattle. Woo hoo. There hadn’t been a case of TB in Wyoming for over twenty years.
Isobel was just flipping up the second cow’s skirt—i.e., their tail—to make the injection when she heard shouting from over at the fence line.
Hunter was waving his arms at her and yelling something. She couldn’t make out what. The fastest way into the field had just been to climb through the wooden fence so Hunter had stayed on the sidelines since he was still pretty stiff.
“What?” she shouted back at him, moving a few steps away from the cow. “I can’t hear you!”
He used his hands to make a little speaker around his mouth and yelled again, over and over. B something?
“Ball?” she yelled back.
A movement from the left caught her attention and her heart dropped to her feet as she finally understood exactly what Hunter was screaming about.
Bull.
Heading straight toward her. It was huge. It had giant shoulders and a giant hump on its back. Holy shit.
“Run!” Hunter shouted.
Isobel didn’t need to be told twice. She started sprinting toward the fence.
The bull was already halfway across the field, though, and her second of hesitation had cost her. He seemed to be gaining on her and she pushed harder. The ground was uneven though. If she tripped or fell, she’d be trampled.
She watched the ground trying to avoid any divots or dips in the field. She looked over her shoulder. The bull was far too close. Shit. He couldn’t be gaining on her.
People ran with bulls all the time in Spain. So a human could outrun one. Right?
Right?
She looked forward. The fence was close now. Maybe twenty feet.
The bull bellowed behind her.
Ten feet.
Hunter had jumped up on the fence and reached out his arms. “Run,” he kept shouting, features screwed up in terror. “Run.”
The roaring bull noises got closer than ever behind her but she didn’t dare risk losing momentum by looking back. When she got close to the fence she jumped, reaching for Hunter’s arms even as he stretched over the fence toward her.
He caught her and dragged her over the top of the fence. Their momentum kept carrying them and the next thing she knew, she was flying toward the ground. She landed on her back and Hunter collapsed over her, his chest to hers. He barely stopped himself from smashing into her by catching himself with his hand on the grass beside her.
Isobel blinked hard and gasped, her breath having been knocked out of her.
