Almost Fired by the Cowboy (EBOOK)

Salvatore is the blondest and burliest son in the Miller family ranching empire. Tension is flaring up between his brothers and father. Now Sal is out to prove he can take over as favorite son.

There’s just one problem—nothing he tries is going right.

Nova is thrilled with her new job as vet tech on the McLintoc Miller Ranch. After all, with no family to help her, she’s out to prove she can make it on her own.

Except then she goes and practically football tackles the Miller’s burly son for trying to kill a snake. And his stuck-up attitude is surely going to get her fired. How can a cowboy who looks so perfect be so irritating?

Sal is distracted by this new girl on the ranch who questions his authority. He’s torn. Will he pursue his attraction to her or focus on winning his father’s approval?

TROPES
✅ Boss / Employee Romance
✅ Arrogant Cowboy
✅ Vet Tech

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Was that a mud snake? Nova hadn’t seen one of those in a while.

“You hold that thought, Peggy,” Nova said, turning away and following after. She should probably leave the thing alone, but it was by a place where it was pretty easy to get trampled or hurt by a worker. Maybe even eaten up by a pig. And while Nova believed in the circle of life and all that; she also really, really loved reptiles.

Besides, it was her lunchtime. If she wanted to spend it following a snake, who was to stop her?

Hurrying along as best she could, she kept her eyes on the black and red snake as it scuttled along. They were nonvenomous, and probably great for helping to keep the mouse population down, but it would do better maybe away from the parking area and more towards the fields. And hey, if it changed directions and went to safety, she figured that she could just enjoy watching it shimmy along.

The whole demi-chase was going great until she lost it somewhere around the back of the barn. One moment it was there, the next it was just… gone.

Huh, that was disappointing.

Oh well, it wasn’t like she was going to pick it up and keep it. It didn’t look injured, and there was no reason it needed to be helped. But still… didn’t mean she couldn’t maybe possibly hold it for a solid thirty seconds or so.

Nova turned in place a moment, hands on her hips. She was pretty sure the lil’ guy was long gone, but she figured walking once around the barn wouldn’t hurt.

Taking her time, she ambled along, looking for him all curled up in some corner. She was maybe halfway around when she heard a yelp. A yelp that distinctly sounded like a non-snake-liking person coming face to face with a snake. As someone who loved reptiles, it was something she was used to hearing more often than she liked.

Rushing around as best she could with her bum knee, she came right around a corner of the barn to see a truly giant man with a shovel raised above his head, the mud snake cornered between two pieces of equipment and desperately trying to find an escape.

“Hey! Stop that!” she cried. There was no reason to kill an innocent, non-venomous creature that actually helped the ecosystem of the ranch. Maybe it was crazy of her to object, considering how some people felt about them, but just because they freaked some people out was no reason to murder one.

But the man’s bulging arms—seriously, he had a lot of muscle—were already coming down. He wasn’t going to stop.

A problem that Nova had occasionally was that her logic sometimes came second to her emotions. It was something that her family had complained about since she was a kid, but it hadn’t changed even into her adulthood.

And that was how she ended up charging forward and tackling a guy with at least eighty pounds on her.

Well, her mother had always said she had more heart than head. And that was the last thought that popped into her head right before she crashed into a solid wall of muscle.

Umph.