Boxed Set: Intercepted by Love (The Complete Collection): Books One - Book Six

Author:Ayala, Rachelle [Ayala, Rachelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-04T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The sun was hot and high in the sky, but Coach Settles was relentless. He yelled at Cade and his teammates through drill after drill. Cade must have dropped back and passed so many times, left, right, back, center, that he could have thrown his arm out of the socket.

Todd Irvin was looking sharp, completing pass after pass while Cade fumbled the ball, even at the snap.

“What’s the matter with you?” The coach dragged him aside. “You better turn in a stellar performance at this afternoon’s scrimmage or I’m starting Irvin this Saturday.”

“I’m trying, sir.” Cade blew out a breath and hustled back onto the field.

His arms and legs felt like sandbags the rest of the afternoon, and he was caught dozing off during the video review at the team meeting.

“Baby keeping you up all night?” Todd slapped his back while they were dressing in the locker room.

“He’s doing okay.”

“I mean, that baby just looks so much like you—he’s a spitting image.”

“Yep.” Since when had Todd seen the baby? It wasn’t as if they had had time to make baby announcements. In any case, Cade had no time to banter. He was in a hurry to visit his mother at the rehab facility she had been transferred to.

“Who would have thought, out of all the guys she did the rumpty-tumpty with, you’d be the winner?” Todd sighed exaggeratedly. “Hit the jackpot.”

Cade pulled on his pants and tucked his shirt in. “Love to chat, but I gotta go.”

“Sure seems like you’ve got everything going your way. Baby boy, devoted girlfriend, even your mother drug free and overjoyed to be a grandmother, oh, and starting position on Saturday.”

“Yep.” Cade pulled on his socks and slipped into his shoes. “See you tomorrow.”

“Hey, I’ve got an idea. The guys, we want to do a baby shower for you. Knock back a few beers and do a diaper collection. How about this Saturday after the game?”

“Uh, it’s really not necessary.” Cade closed his locker and picked up his gym bag. “I appreciate the sentiment.”

“Nah, really.” Todd shut his locker and hooked his arm over Cade’s shoulder. “Now that your baby’s doing well, even though he was almost two months premature, we ought to celebrate. Shouldn’t we, guys?” Todd called to the other teammates in the locker room. “I say baby shower for Cade after the game. My place.”

“Sure, let’s do it,” Todd’s buddy, Steve Sanderson said. “Guys only. Make sure you bring the little guy.”

“Yeah, show him off.” Todd clapped his hands. “It’s not every day our starting quarterback clones himself. Don’t y’all think that baby looks just like Cade? Except for the mouth part. Sorry, bud, he must have gotten Rox’s mouth.”

“Lucky kid,” Sanderson said. “Rox has a hot mouth.”

“That’s enough,” Cade growled. “You got a problem with me, bite me. Leave my baby and his mother out of it.”

“Oh, but we love you, your baby, and his mother.” Todd clamped his arm tighter around Cade’s shoulder. “Such an interesting combination of blood

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