The cowboys of the T-Lazy-A and the M-L Connected just don’t see eye to eye. In fact, they hate each other. So when Hank Collins rides up to the waterhole to find an M-L Connected rider floating on his side of the pond, his hackles naturally rise. And when that rider challenges him to a bout of fisticuffs ... well, what red-blooded cowboy could turn down such a dare? There's only one problem: Hank quickly becomes all too aware that his opponent isn't just physically fit, but downright arresting. What's a cowboy to do when the man who's caught his eye rides for the wrong brand?

Riding for the Brand

The rider reached over his head, trying for a hold on Hank’s hair, but Hank jerked his head back out of the way. He put a bit of pressure on the back of the man’s neck, the muscles he’d built up from years of wrangling cattle bulging as he struggled to hold the larger man.


“Don’t make me hold your head under until you give in,” Hank told the man. Hank hauled backward and the cowboy’s feet slipped in the mud and flew out from underneath him. It was all Hank could do to keep his grasp on the slippery body, but he dragged the M-L rider along with him to the bank of the waterhole. “I’m willing to let you ride off if you holler calf-rope,” he said. He thought it was big of him not to ask the man to suck his cock first.


“I ain’t giving in to you.” The cowboy got his feet under him and shoved hard. The two men flew backwards, hitting the water hard enough to loosen Hank’s grip.


Chapter 4