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Weatherford, Texas has always been a town where horses, competition, and long nights at the bar seem to go hand in hand. When Y/N comes down to Texas to help her older sister Cassie lope horses for a cutting horse trainer, she’s expecting nothing more than a few weeks of hard work, good horses, and time with her sister. She’s comfortable in the saddle and knows her way around the horse world, but she isn’t looking for anything—or anyone—while she’s there. Then there’s Wade Kingston. A 6’2” professional reining horseman with blue eyes, black hair, a ridiculous mustache, and enough charm to get himself into trouble, Wade spends his days in the show pen and his nights at the bar. He’s confident, talkative, and used to getting attention wherever he goes. Y/N isn’t impressed. That alone is enough to make Wade curious. With Cassie dating Ledger, one of Wade’s coworkers, Y/N quickly becomes part of the same circle. The neighboring cutting and reining barns blur together, weekends turn into late nights, and what starts as harmless teasing between Wade and Y/N slowly becomes something neither of them expected. But the horse world is small, and everyone knows everyone. What happens when a casual attraction becomes something neither of them can keep pretending is casual? Between dusty arenas, crowded bars, long nights, competitive show pens, and the Texas heat, Wade and Y/N find themselves caught somewhere between friendship and something much harder to walk away from. Because sometimes the best things in life aren’t the ones you go looking for. Sometimes they find you.