Eight Seconds to Fly

Eight Seconds to Fly

Author: Grace McGinty Listening Length: 9h 10m
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Tessa May Everett had grown up loving four things in life; bull riding, her father and her best frenemies, Branch and Beau. But in less than eight seconds, she’d lost all four things and the single most important person in her life. Four years later, Tessa May is back and ready to reclaim her dreams. She was going to ...

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I ’d forgotten that Beau was a bit of a feeder, like someone's elderly British nanna. In times of trouble, he got you food. When we got back to the hotel room, he’d gotten food and hot tea sent up.

He sat outside the door as I showered and scrubbed every inch of my body clean and cried some more.

When he came in and found me in a ball on the shower floor, he stepped in there fully clothed and picked me up, taking me back to the main room.

He dried me with soft, impersonal hands before pulling one of Frankie’s oversized hooded sweatshirts over my head.