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I wanted to celebrate that evening all over again, but there was no rejoicing with everything that had followed. The catalysts for us leaving on our journey now.
“Lu.”
“Who?”
Was she ready to hear about my recent dreams? I wasn’t sure, so I grinned. “Someone woke me up for a kiss.”
Her lips parted. “That’s right.” She reached up and grasped my neck, pulling me down for our mouths to meet.
My arms gathered her up in an instant, wanting more of her.
It had been so long since we touched like this, so long since I got to taste her. I was immediately lost in her. She was so perfect. and consuming that when I dared to open my eyes, I was shocked to see we were four feet off the ground.
Oh, shit!
We fell to the ground, my feet catching us.
Rya gasped, “Thunda?”
“I… I…”
In the distance, we heard, “Pups! Let’s hit the road!”
Sadly, a man calling out for her was only a reminder of her dad doing the same. But she turned to me and said, “I like hearing him call for us.”
I put my forehead to hers. “Me, too.”
By 9 AM, Diesel had us ready to hit the road. I wasn’t used to traveling, but Rya was an expert. Two years ago when I had to say goodbye to her, she was just starting to attend professional events. I missed a chunk of her life that I wish I could get back. I wish I could’ve protected her … and been there for her other accomplishments. Like getting her driver’s license on her sixteenth birthday, I wasn’t there. I didn’t even get her a gift. Her father bought her a Dually and a five-horse trailer.
Now I had to ride in it all the way to Texas.
All the fresh dents in the pearly black paint spoke of how Rya wasn’t keen on it either.
Since her horse was heavier than my bike, Sable was loaded first. She didn’t squabble. She just walked right in at Rya’s command, as if this happened every day. I guess it had in the two years I missed.
A reality hit me. “It’s not just the horses you’ll miss.”
I was in the trailer with her, standing at the end while she closed Sable’s compartment.
My girl seemed older, in many ways, when she responded. “Reinin’ is a lifestyle. It wasn’t only Sable who’d been trained for it.”
I thought of my grooming to be a Titan and completely understood her meaning. “I feel a little … out of my realm right now.”
With boots in leftover hay because she hadn’t cleaned her trailer after rushing home to bury Bert, she explained, “It’s not only houses we’re leaving, Thunda.”
That truth hit my chest like a punch. I completely understood.
Heavy cowgirl and biker boots made their way to each other. Little yet mighty arms wrapped around my ribs as a precious face lay to my chest.
I held her, sighing, leaning my head to hers. “Everlasting, babe.”
“Everlasting.” She sighed, too. “I don’t think I’ve had time to thank you.” Peering up at me, her chin rested to my chest. “You once asked me if Jay-sus had saved me like othe’ boys and girls.”
We were so young back then.
I tucked wild hair behind her ear. “You told me he hadn’t.” As I remembered more, I swallowed the pain I wish I had been old enough to recognize back then. “But that, maybe someday, I could.”
Golden eyes held me captive. “You did, Thunda.”
