“Are you ready to ride?”

“Yes,” she said.

“You should give McKenna a show, too.”

“Hopefully, it won’t be a show of me falling off the horse again.”

“Definitely,” Gabe said, his expression suddenly getting stony.

“You’re going to rush into place and catch me if I start to fall, right?” she asked. “Because I seem to recall that last time you felt that had you been here, you would have prevented it.”

“Get your smart ass up on the horse, Jamie,” he said. Then she went off to do just that.

* * *

GABE FELT HIS sister’s gaze burning into the side of his face.

“Don’t bullshit me, Dalton.”

He kept his eyes on Jamie, and resolutely not on McKenna. “Why not, Tate?”

“Soon to be Dodge,” McKenna said. “And don’t forget it. The same last name as the girl you’re currently fooling around with.”

He looked off in the distance where Jamie was tightening the girth on her horse’s saddle. “I’m not fooling around with her.”

“You are sleeping with her, though.”

“Why do you think that?”

“Because I’m clairvoyant.” He drew back and looked at her, his eyes wide. “I’m not clairvoyant, you idiot. But I know Jamie. She seems different. In the way she looks at you... You two have secret smiles. Secret smiles between men and women tend to mean there’s been nudity.”

“First of all, I didn’t believe you were clairvoyant, not for a minute. I was a little concerned you might believe you were. Second, I’m not messing around with her,” he reiterated.

“I believe you,” she said. “But what are you doing?”

He lifted a shoulder. “Enjoying myself.”

McKenna responded slowly. “And I can see that she’s enjoying it, too.”

“I think so.”

She assessed him and didn’t speak, but there was a funny smile playing around the edge of her mouth, and he wanted to tell her not to get ideas.

Jamie got up on the horse, then went to the edge of the entrance to the arena. And when she and the horse let fly, it was incredible to see.

Jamie practically stood, working her legs up and down in time with the horse, her incredible control around each curve amazing. And he knew exactly how all those muscles in her body felt. How it looked when she was naked.

She’d earned all that athletic, toned beauty, and it was on display here. And giving him a hell of a rush.

Jamie finished off the course, and Gabe stuck two fingers in his mouth and whistled.

McKenna clapped next to him, shaking her head. “Even if I didn’t know Jamie so well, I would know there was something going on, because you can’t handle yourself watching her like that. You’re so into her it’s hilarious.”

His knee-jerk reaction to that was anger. She was being nosy and she didn’t have the right to be. What was happening between him and Jamie was between him and Jamie.

“Look, you can be judgmental if you want. And you can talk about how predictable I am, and how Wyatt was afraid this would happen, and his suspicions were unfounded, or whatever. But whatever you think... McKenna, being around Jamie reminds me of what it was like to care about things.”