Eight Seconds, No Regrets
MM Rodeo Romance
by Jace Wilder
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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Age Gap, Forced Proximity, Bisexual Awakening, First Time, Praise Kink, Injured Athlete, Caretaking, Brat/Tamer, Secret Relationship, Touch Starved, Size Difference, Rodeo Romance, Widower, Rancher/Cowboy
He only needs eight seconds on the bull. The man who saves him wants him alive for everything that comes after.
A bull only needs eight seconds to ruin a man’s life.
Tiernan Kittredge has built his career on never admitting when he’s hurt. Pain wins championships. Fear ends them. Then a brutal ride leaves him broken beneath fifteen hundred pounds of fury — and the man who reaches him first is the one man Tiernan has never managed to charm.
Evren Halcott is older, controlled, and finished burying people he loves. Letting the reckless bull rider recover at his isolated ranch is already a terrible idea. Letting Tiernan turn two years of relentless flirting into something real would be worse.
Tiernan promises he only wants to experiment. Evren promises it ends when Tiernan heals. Neither man plans for quiet mornings, jealous nights, or the terrifying relief of finally giving someone else control.
But when the rodeo circuit demands one dangerous choice, Evren has to decide whether loving Tiernan means holding on — or trusting him enough to let go.
Eight seconds can win a championship. It can also cost them everything.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Bisexual awakening with a stern older medic who’s worth the wait
✅ Seventeen-year age gap with praise kink that rewrites your nervous system
✅ Injured athlete forced proximity on an isolated Montana ranch
✅ “I can’t watch you destroy yourself” protective possessiveness
✅ Brat-versus-authority chemistry that combusts (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ A touch-starved widower learning to love again
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains graphic explicit MM sexual content, strong language, rodeo injury (including arena accident and recovery), panic attacks, a controlling parent, and depictions of grief and widowerhood. Intended for readers 18+.
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Chapter One: Eight Seconds
The first second is a lie.
Your body tells you it has this. Your thighs lock, your core braces, your free hand finds the air like it’s reaching for God, and somewhere in the reptile stem of your brain a voice whispers you were born for this — and for one pristine, crystallized heartbeat, you believe it.
The second second is when the bull decides you’re wrong.
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Three weeks after the HEA. Tiernan has his confidence back, Evren has met his match, and the tack room — the place where they first learned to be honest — needs a new memory. Full power reversal. The bull rider takes charge. The medic says please.
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