BT

She thought she left the rodeo behind. Y/N McCrae grew up on the circuit, the daughter of a professional roper and part of a family everyone knows. Then she left for college, built a career of her own, and stayed away for years. Now she’s back as the league’s nurse, surrounded by the people and places she thought she’d outgrown. Colt Hayes has never met her. He’s heard the McCrae name plenty of times, but when he sees Y/N for the first time, she’s just a woman he can’t stop looking at. He doesn’t know her history. He doesn’t know her family. He doesn’t know she’s about to become a permanent part of his world. He just knows he wants her. Y/N knows exactly what a cowboy like Colt is probably after. A few nights, a little fun, then the next rodeo. So she lets herself want him without expecting anything from it. Except Colt keeps coming back. One hookup becomes another. Then late nights, lingering conversations, stolen touches, and a growing awareness neither of them is willing to name. Jealousy starts showing up where it shouldn’t. His attention starts feeling like more than attraction. Her absence starts bothering him more than it should. Neither of them meant for it to become serious. Neither of them is prepared for the moment it does. Because sometimes the person you expect to disappear after the rodeo is the one who ends up being impossible to leave behind.