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

After I help with chores in the stables, I take a break, sitting on one of the fences. The sun’s setting, and the ranch has that perfect golden-hour glow. It’s one of the most beautiful places on earth when it looks like this. I can understand exactly why my family settled here decades ago, and why my parents held on so tight even as their interests drew them away from it. If I have to leave here, walk away from it, and give it to her, I will. I’ll know it’s in good hands but…

I want to stay. Every moment I’ve been back on this ranch has made me sorry I ever left. I just don’t know how I could have done things differently. Football was the only thing I was ever good at, and staying here, reliving finding my parents in a pool of their own blood on the front porch every day I walked past it, would have driven me mad. It reopened the wound every time I saw the stains in the boards. The ones no amount of scrubbing could ever get out .