Bound to Sin: A Dark Why Choose Snow White Retelling by Eve Dangerfield

Author:Eve Dangerfield [Dangerfield, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Anthology
Publisher: Dangerous Press
Published: 2023-08-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

January Whitehall

The air outside is clean and fresh with a hint of damp. It seems extra pure after the dark stories Bobby told me in the car. I watch as he lifts a baseball bat, a picnic rug, and a huge red cooler out of the back of the truck.

“Can I carry anything?” I ask.

“Sure.”

He tosses me a leather glove. It looks brand new and when I put it on my left hand it fits perfectly.

Bobby smiles. “Come on, beautiful. Let’s play.”

The stadium’s metal gate is unlocked, though there’s no one around. Has he rented out the whole field? Inside, Bobby puts the cooler down and leads me onto the diamond. “Have you ever played before?”

“I’ve watched ‘A League of Her Own’?”

“Close enough.” He picks up the bat and a huge white grapefruit of a ball. “Head to the home base and I’ll show you how to swing.”

I’m nervous as Bobby strips off my leather glove and arranges me over the plate with the bat. “Shouldn’t I wear a helmet?”

“It’s okay, I’ll pitch slow.”

Bobby’s a good teacher. He got me to understand math, kind of, and baseball’s even easier. I miss the first two times he throws the ball but on the third, I hit it with a satisfying ‘thwack!’

Bobby jogs after it and I notice how nice his butt looks in his jeans.

“You’ve got strong arms,” he tells me. “Let’s try it again but this time turn your hips more when you swing.”

He pitches to me again and again and soon I’m hitting every ball and they’re going all over the place. “I feel like I should be aiming more,” I tell him, breathing hard. “But it’s so fun!”

“Good.” Bobby tosses the ball in the air. He looks relaxed, sweat shining on his freckled brow. This is where he should have been. Playing baseball. Maybe professionally, maybe just for fun with his friends. If he’d gone to UCLA like he was supposed to, he’d now live in California, in a house with huge sunshiny windows and he’d hike and surf and never be interested in a girl like me.

My mind flashes back to Bobby’s proposal in the cage. He might say that he wants to share me with his brothers. But once upon a time, all he wanted was to marry me. Does he not see me as worthy of him the same way anymore?

“What’s on your mind?” Bobby asks.

I press the end of the baseball bat into the ground. “I don’t know, I guess I was just thinking about how different things could have been if Mr. Parker wasn’t around.”

Bobby frowns. “Different in what way?”

“Well, you probably wouldn’t be in something like Velvet House. You’d probably be working for Google.”

He gives me a small smile. “You don’t need to feel sorry for me, JJ.”

“But if you’d never lost your Dad, you wouldn’t have stayed in New York, right?”

“Maybe not, but I take responsibility for staying.”

“But—”

“There aren’t any ‘buts.’ I wanted in on the deal with Orchard. I agreed we shouldn’t sell to Parker.

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