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older than me but that would have to be the maximum.  It is more likely that he is only about five or six years older.
    There go my wedding plans. 
    He must think I’m either a total idiot or a total bitch after saying that. 
    Realizing the mistake I have made, my mouth continues to work separately to my frozen mind.
    “I like the name Jax – a lot,” I whisper and lean back into my seat wishing it would swallow me whole.  I am too embarrassed to say or think about anything else.  At this point it seems senseless to even try to explain my monumental mistake. 
    Perhaps God will take pity on me and a massive rift will appear in the ground.  This whole car can then descend into the bowels of the earth.  That would be a good thing because at least my last Earthly vision would be this demigod of a man before me called Jax .
    “ Ashleigh aint so bad either,” he smirks, flashing his dimples at me again, resending me into that stupid dream like trance.  My mind is once again sidetracked.  This time with thoughts of what his dimples might feel like with my lips on them if I could get anywhere near them.
    He squats down next to the car and looks up at me. 
    “Here’s the thing.  I am gunna send you and your horse home.  For today.  Your body is all kinds of fucked up.  Your horse has given you physical injuries and probably a shitload of mental ones too. You can come back when you are back in one-piece, physically at least.   I’m still gunna want you to ride him for me but you need to be not fucked up to do that.  You also need to know I don’t retrain horses.  I just work with horses coz I like ‘em.  Sure, I can probably do what you are expecting and ‘fix’ your horse.  Or make it look like I’ve fixed him anyway.   Give him to me for an hour or two and he’ll be a real good horse for me to ride.  That won’t mean he is for you.  The number one problem with most of the trouble horses in the world is actually the rider.  Horses aren’t natural born killers, they’re natural born scaredy cats, and for you to be able to ride him, he has to trust you.  You also have to be a confident leader.  I need to ‘fix’ you first and then he will fix himself.  Do you hear what I am saying?”
    Well this is a revelation.  How the hell did he know I wasn’t a confident rider?  Is he a psychic?  It makes absolute sense though.  Rather disappointing sense, but sense nonetheless.  I suppose the upside is that he is telling me to come back and I get to see him again.
    “Yes, I hear you.” I respond softly looking at my own reflection in his sunglasses wondering what color his eyes are.  “We’ll come back when I am better.”
    Of course we will. 
    Even better, I just want to stay here and stare at you for the rest of my life, you gorgeous, gorgeous man.
    He leans in closer and looks into my eyes looking like he is going to say something else.  Close enough that I can feel his warm breath tickling against my face.  I swing my eyes to his lips, my mind wandering off to other places where those lips aren’t just close to me, they are on me. 
    He sighs then makes a sharp grunt as he swings away from my face and straightens up next to the car. 
    “ Good.  Let’s get this horse back on your float and get you home.  I’ll see you next time.” 
    He then swings away and saunters towards Jen to help her put Maverick back on the float.  He does this leaving me with a huge, empty feeling of loss that I cannot explain.
     
     

Chapter One
    Second Chance
     
    Jen’s butt has barely touched the driver’s side seat before I am at her.
    “Old?  You call that old?  What the hell do you think we are?  At the age of twenty-eight, I for one do not consider a thirty something, movie star look-alike male old.   Now I know you are a full three months younger than me, so to you I am probably the old one out of the two of us, but really?  
    Explain yourself woman before I drag you out of this