Free Wild Ride: A Bad Boy Romance by Roxeanne Rolling Page A

A lot of them
had skills to begin with. But once they got famous, they couldn’t be bothered
with trying to maintain a certain skill level. Plus, I think fame affects
people negatively.”
    “Shouldn’t you
not be telling me this, especially now?” said Colton.
    Cambridge
laughed a big belly laugh. He adjusted his golden cuff links while nodding his
head. “You’re a sharp one, Colton. Trust me, you’re going to be just fine. And
after you win this one, I’m going to tell you what I have in store for you
next. This next move of mine is going to propel you through the celebrity
stratosphere, don’t worry. Just go out there and do your job.”
    Colton nodded.
He took his cowboy hat from the post and put it carefully on his head with one
hand. He leaned down and adjusted his boots one final time. He was ready.

14. KATY

 
    “Ladies and
gentleman, may I now present to you the man you’ve all been waiting for, the
current number one rodeo champion in the world…Colton.”
    The crowd
exploded.
    Something had
happened.
    There were
people here who weren’t just rodeo fans.
    In the last
week alone, Colton’s fame had exploded.
    Driving home
from my Father’s funeral, I had heard Colton on a radio talk show. And there
were fans calling in from all over, just hoping for a chance to talk to Colton
for a moment.
    I had to admit
it had affected me. His widespread fame had made it nearly impossible to get
him out of my head. He had become all I could think about.
    I looked down
and saw Colton. He was seated on his bull in the pen. He looked…well, he looked
hot, especially in his cowboy hat and jeans…all that rodeo gear.
    The bull was a
big and vicious one. It was exhaling sharply through its massive nostrils…it
seemed to me that I could sense its anger, it’s meanness.
    The group was
already going wild…there were women who were lifting up their shirts, showing
their pert young breasts….I felt a twang of jealousy…who knew how many more
women Colton had slept with since me.
    I was jealous,
angry and sad. But I couldn’t stay away.
    I had seen a
billboard advertising this rodeo event, and had made a flash decision to
come…the tickets had been more than I’d thought. The man at the ticket counter
said that they were about to sell out, and that the tickets were selling for
twice as much as normal. When I’d asked why, he’d said it was because Colton
was fast becoming the most famous rodeo star ever.
    The crowd was
going insane at this point. Breasts were everywhere…young breasts…I looked down
at my own and wondered if they could ever compete.
    The voice on
the loudspeaker was saying something, but I couldn’t concentrate on what it was
saying, or who was speaking.
    I had finally found
Colton in the crowd. He was all I could see from that point onward.
    He was wearing
his full rodeo gear.
    He wore his
cowboy hat, his spurs, his chaps, all the leather gear that I had always
associated with cowboy style. It turned out it was all practical gear, and the
style was just an offshoot of original practical necessities…that just goes to
show you how much of a city girl I really was. I didn’t know anything about cowboys
or the rodeo. This was actually my first rodeo. There was a distant possibility
I had been to one in college, but if that was true than I had definitely been
so drunk on tequila that I didn’t remember a single moment of it.
    Colton got onto
the bull. The bull seemed fairly calm so far for having a human mount him, and
for being locked in a pen.
    Forgive me for
my descriptions…I’m sure an actual rodeo fan would kill me for the technical
details I’m missing, but I did my best to pay attention to the rodeo, but like
I said I was not only a complete beginner, but also my mind and my body were so
focused on Colton that it was hard to see what was going on around him…not that
focusing on the rodeo rider during a rodeo is a bad thing…but, you know, you
should also be paying attention to the