Bull Rush

Bull Rush

Author: Maggie Rawdon Listening Length: 11h 4m

Still married. Those words change everything. Now my should-be ex-husband, Ramsey Stockton, the former pro football star turned felon and hero who left this town—and me—behind years ago, is at my door offering me a deal with the devil. If I let him stay and play his wife again for ninety days, he’ll give me a quiet ...

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Ramsey

Nothing feels better than a shower after too many days on the road headed west with only truck-stop bathrooms, gas-station food, and a playlist on loop to keep me company. I’m exhausted, parts of my body hurt worse than they do post-game, and I feel like I’m covered in a thick layer of road dust and chip crumbs. A long outdoor shower under the wide-open Colorado sky, a decent home-cooked meal by one of my favorite cooks of all-time, and an even longer sleep under the stars without worrying about getting robbed by whatever’s rolled in off the highway for the night is going to do wonders for the state of my fucking mental health. A thing I’m going to need when she finds out I’m here early.

I turn the water off and grab the towel hanging off the ladder, wrapping it around my waist. I forgot how much I love it out here—how good it is to be out in the wild again, far away from the roar of crowds and the congestion of the city, where I’m free as fuck to do whatever I want—within the bounds of my parole, anyway.