About Rodeo Night

by Kate Roman
27 pages / 7100 words
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In order to put off his well-meaning but curious cousins, Clay Garcia agrees to spend a night at la charreada, the Mexican rodeo. But while fending off the advances of his blind date, Lupe, Clay finds it hard not to think about his older ranch-hand lover, Warshaw, and all the things they could be getting up to. Now if only he can slip away...

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At twenty-one, Clay worked full-time on his family's sheep ranch, tucked away in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, part of a sleepy, loose-knit
agricultural community. He was wiry with ranch-honed muscle but still on the skinny side, and he knew his traditional Mexican parents were already itching for him to bring home a good Catholic señorita and announce he'd be settling down, getting married, and producing the next generation of Garcias, pronto.

Clay could only imagine the trouble if he brought Warshaw home instead.

Drying off in front of the full-length mirror on the back of his bedroom door, Clay
mentally ticked off the familiar litany of reasons why being with Warshaw was a bad idea. Warshaw was nearly twice his age, for a start, tall and rangy, with knowing blue eyes and a thick, salt-and-pepper mustache that matched the long hair he kept pulled back in a ponytail. He worked at a neighboring ranch, the Lone Manzanita, as well as taking shearing jobs up and down the valley. He was older, white, and very, very male.

Despite all that, he was everything Clay could have asked for.