Bottom of the Ninth: Seattle Skookums Baseball (Game On in Seattle Book 6) by Jami Davenport

Author:Jami Davenport [Davenport, Jami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sports romance
Publisher: Cedrona Enterprises
Published: 2016-10-20T21:00:00+00:00

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After the game, Paisley tucked the girls into bed and read them a story.

They were doing so well here, and she hoped she could find a way to stay long-term. She couldn’t shake a sense of foreboding that she hadn’t heard the last of the kids’ father yet, but she checked the jail roster online religiously. As of this morning, he was still incarcerated for drug possession.

“Auntie Paze?” Sophie asked.

She looked down at two pairs of eyes staring at her from their twin beds.

“Yes, Soph?”

“Are you going to marry Mr. Zeke? ’Cause if you do, we could be his kids, too, and live here forever, and we could be a family. All of us. We like him, and we want to stay here. We could get a dog or a kitty. My new friend Savannah has two kitties, one is black and one is—”

Paisley tried to follow Sophie’s ramblings and held up a hand to stop her before she got on a bigger roll. She cast a glance at Sadie. She was staring at her with a combination of hope and perpetual disappointment. “Zeke and I are just friends. We aren’t going to get married.”

“Why not?” said Sadie in her quiet little voice.

“Because you should be in love when you marry someone, and we’re not in love.” At least, Zeke wasn’t. Paisley wasn’t sure what she was.

“Were Mommy and Daddy in love?” Sophie wondered.

“I’m sure they were,” Paisley fibbed. She was certain they weren’t. They’d been young and stupid. Calico got pregnant, and the rest was predictable.

“Then why was Daddy so mean to her?” Sadie asked.

“Sometimes people have tempers they can’t control, but that’s no excuse.” And the bastard was a mean drunk and professional asshole.

Sadie nodded seriously and pulled the covers up high over her face. Sophie stared at Paisley for a long moment but surprisingly said nothing.

“Good night, girls.”

“Good night,” they echoed back.

Paisley went to Brayden’s room next. He was already asleep with the autographed bat and ball from Zeke cradled in his arms. Paisley smiled and placed a kiss on Bray’s forehead. She’d protect these kids with her life and her freedom if need be. She may have already sacrificed her freedom by removing them from Idaho while their father was in jail. Living where they had, child protective services had been more than happy to let her take care of them, rather than attempt to find foster homes in the area. The system continued to fail them, but she’d be damned if she’d add herself to that list.

Sinking onto the couch in blissful exhaustion, Paisley stared at the tweet of Zeke and her from the party last night. It’d gone viral locally and was trending in Seattle. Zeke had posted it on his Twitter feed initially with the caption “Night out with my fave female.” She couldn’t get past those three words—my fave female. Hope soared within her even as she tried to tamp it down. Zeke didn’t seem like a social media guy.

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