A Sweet Spot For Love by Aliyah Burke

Author:Aliyah Burke
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Linc winced against the strain in his shoulder but remained where he was in the batting cage. This cage remained locked, as it was for him, personally. Pitching could reach up to one hundred miles per hour. Combined with the variety of pitching angles, he didn’t want any child to be injured. Linc had come to blow off some steam before he picked up Emma for their dinner with the Stevensons. He needed to work off some of this excess energy.

Closing his eyes, he adjusted his stance slightly as he waited for the machine to lob a ball at him. Lips twitching as he thought about Emma saying he was used to balls flying at his face, he almost missed the first one.

Instinct took over and while he’d been out of the game for a while, his muscle memory knew what to do. The crack of the bat was satisfying as the reverberations moved up his arms.

Swing after swing, endorphins pumped through him. He’d been a switch hitter when he’d played and so he took an equal number of pitches on both sides.

Drenched in sweat when he finally called it quits, he took a deep breath and saw both Mitchell and Tully, fingers hooked in the wire, watching him.

“Are you ever going to forgive yourself?” Tully walked to the door and unlatched it for him.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Fuck you, Linc, if that’s what you think.” Mitchell handed the padlock to Tully after Linc walked out.

“I don’t want to do this.”

“That’s the problem. You never want to do this. We’re not letting it go and before you ask us a fucking stupid question like why, let me tell you.” Tully turned his ballcap backward. “You have a great thing going with Emma but you’re never going to completely open up to her so long as you’re not letting go of the past and moving on.”

“Just because you found your woman, Tully, doesn’t mean all of our lives are fucking roses.” They walked to the storage locker and he tossed his bat in before slamming the door.

“I’m with Tully on this, Linc. Don’t think I’m backing you this time.”

“Jesus, guys, what do you want from me?” He locked it and spun, glaring at them. “You want to know how many times I wake at night sweating because I still think there may be a chance I’m not going to walk again or be able to move my arm? You want to know how much of an ass I was when I knew I wasn’t playing again and instead of being happy for Carlos when they made him captain, I said things to him that my father would still whup my ass for today?”

Linc banged his head on the locker without wincing.

“I cut myself off from everyone.”

Mitchell propped his leg up on the bench. “You tried.”

“Not hard enough.” He ripped his shirt off and dumped it on the floor. Fingers on the waistband of his jeans, he arched an eyebrow at them.

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