Page 21 of Untamed
She looks at me and we both burst out laughing, my body shaking. I point to the screen. “And spinner.”
We’re having way too much fun with this and poor Morgan has no clue what we’re talking about. To be fair, she’s lost interest in us and is focusing on the snake trying desperately to get away from her.
After watching the video, I want to knoweverythingabout the sport and Grayer, but really that translates into me wanting to know everything there is to know about him.
We find the biography on him next. The picture beside it is one of him in his cowboy hat and damn if his eyes aren’t so determined you know his sureness never wavers.
GRAYER EASTON
DECATUR, TX USA
World Rank: 1
Age: 21
Height: 5-11
Weight: 175
Years Pro: 3
Riding Hand: Right
GRAYER EASTON is an Ellensburg, Washington, native following in his older brother, Reid Easton’s, footsteps. Grayer entered bull riding at the age of fourteen. Since he went pro at eighteen, he’s won over twenty events in his three-year professional career and had sixty-one rides so far. In 2014, he became the first rider in history to stay on all six bulls he rode for the required eight seconds and won his first World Championship.
Haylee points to a video below the biography. “Let’s watch that one next.”
We click on the video of his last ride at the World Finals and it’s much like the first one we watched—focused on what he’s doing, riding a beast. It’s like he knows he’s a force to be reckoned with. It’s in his posture, the grip he maintains on the rope and the fluidity of his muscle movement as he tames the untamable. He walks away with the championship, cocky and self-assured almost taunting those he was up against. That swagger—that smirk—and damn hat.
“I need a cigarette,” Haylee says, her cheeks flushed.
Laughing, I hand her another beer from the cooler and drop a few ice cubes on her to cool her down. “Who knew bull riding could be that hot.”
She sighs. “You’re not kidding.”
