Lori Mahoney ✖ 22 ✖ Ranch Hand at Booker Ranch & Former Veterinary Major at the University of California, Davis ✖ Sexuality Up To Writer
Lori Mahoney, daughter to Melissa and Luke Mahoney, never had the greatest childhood. Her mother was addicted to drugs and her dad, well, she never knew him. Lori’s knowledge of her father’s whereabouts was unclear, all she knew was that he’d been put in jail for life when she was six months old for five counts of murder during one of his drunken rages. While there was a good chance the man was insane, they were never able to prove it. Growing up in San Antonio, Texas, she decided to uproot herself away from anything to do with her parents.
Hitchhiking and trekking across the western parts of the United States, she ended up in Phoenix, Arizona where she had almost collapsed from exhaustion due to the heat. It wasn’t long until she was discovered, passed out among the sand that a man helped her get to a nearby motel. In her delirium, she decided to leave her journey up to fate. After telling her story to the man named Reid Booker, he instantly offered her a job with him and his family in Santa Barbara as a ranch hand. Lori weighed her options, or lack thereof, and agreed and with that settled, they were on their way to sunny California.
Often times, Lori felt like she was being raised by the family and eventually she developed a sibling relationship with Reid. She was literally torn between loving and hating him, but over time, the girl definitely grew to love him. There was an amount of appreciation for him that she couldn’t describe. He saved her and for that, she was grateful. Losing touch with her mother, her initial instinct was to find out whether or not she was faring well, considering the last time she saw the older woman, she was high on whatever. It wasn’t until much later that Lori found out her mother had died of an overdose and she was stuck facing the facts that the only family she had now was the Bookers.
With her father’s death sentence, she accepted this as something bigger and something that she needed time to let go of. For a long while, Lori never got attached to anyone, fearing they might leave suddenly and making her abandonment issues even worse. She was leaving everything she ever had behind and coldly moving forward. Luckily, there was some silver lining to the storm clouds that formed over her, and that silver lining’s name was Wildfire. At seventeen, she discovered her love for horses, especially that single horse that never seemed to leave her side when she came around and she soon felt connected to the world again.
Lori’s work as a ranch hand proved to be a perk while she got her degree in veterinary sciences. Finishing high school, she attended UC Davis for some time before dropping out to be a full-time hand at the ranch and caregiver for Wildfire. Following the deaths of her parents, it was something that definitely shook her up, but she was glad to have Reid and that he has her. The ranch is on the southwest end of Los Angeles and Lori and Reid work side by side while they go on trying to help the ranch. Financially things have always been a bit shaky, but they help each other through their problems. Lori wants a better life for both of them and she joined this site to get out more, hoping he’ll do the same.
Booker Ranch connections are HERE
UCLA connections are HERE
FC: Maddie Hasson
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Availability: OPEN
Negotiable: Yes
Gifs: 740+ . 230+ . 150
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