“So, have they put you on a torture rack yet?”
He heard amusement in her voice. “They have me riding in a rocking chair.”
Despite his anger at being all but bullied by his new therapist, Trent’s spirits lifted. He didn’t like being on bad terms with Saedra. They’d been through too much. After the car wreck that’d taken his rodeo partner’s life, Saedra had been a rock, always by his side, urging him on. She’d taken time away from her own thriving business to help nurse him back to health. There was no way he could repay her for that, and if he were honest with himself, it was part of the reason why he’d come to California despite his reservations. Saedra had put the guilt screws into him but good, telling him that after everything she’d done for him, after all the time she’d spent trying to get him well, he owed it to her to at least try one last thing. So here he was.
“What?” He could hear Saedra’s laughter. “What do you mean a rocking chair?”
“It’s the damn saddle they have me riding in. It’s like a rocking chair. It even has a back.”
“You rode today?”
Her words brought him back to the moment, back to the point in time when he’d first climbed on his horse and nearly broken into tears.
“I’ve actually ridden a few times.”
“Oh, Trent.”
Okay, fine. He would admit that it always felt good to get back in the saddle. The only thing he didn’t like was the harridan in charge of rehabilitating him.
“Don’t sound so thrilled. It’s not like I’m running barrels.”
She was silent for a moment. He wondered where she was. Probably still packing up the last of her things from the business she’d sold. His accident had changed more than him. Saedra had watched her best friend struggle to survive, the whole ordeal making her realize life was too short to put a dream on hold—or so she’d told him. So she’d sold Buckaroo Barbecues, her successful catering business in Denver, bought a trailer to live in, and plotted her strategy on the best way to get to the National Finals Rodeo herself.
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