Clutch Hit by Faith O'Shea

Author:Faith O'Shea
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: baseball romance
Publisher: Faith O'Shea
Published: 2019-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Allie checked her watch. The meal was just winding down and she had to get going. Her suitcase was packed and waiting at Mateo’s condo. She intended to pick it up and leave her car there, take an Uber to the airport. Her nerves were beginning to get the best of her. With shaking limbs, she offered her final condolences to the Farina family and began weaving through the dwindling crowd toward the exit. Mateo stopped her before she could get there.

She felt a flutter in her chest when his hand took hold of her own. He looked so good in his suit, his unruly waves sitting disquietly around his head like a halo.

“You are leaving?”

“Yes. I’m meeting Jelani in just over an hour at the gate.”

“I will be thinking of you. Missing you.”

The song of the same title sung by Alison Krausse and John Waite came streaming into her head, the soft, mellow voices adding to feelings of regret. He did make her smile, set her heart to beating in a crazy rhythm, and she was beginning to think she was not only going to lose the fight but her heart as well.

She touched his cheek with her hand, oblivious to anyone who might be witness. What she wanted to do was lean in for a kiss, feel his lips on hers, and the need was so acute, she stepped back and away.

“I’ll be back on Saturday. I promise I’ll get this done for you.”

“I know I can trust that you will.”

She thought about those words in the Uber ride to the airport. Trust. He trusted her with one of the most critical moves of his life. And it came so freely.

She hadn’t been able to do that since she was four, the day her mother had walked away for the first time. Her life had been solid, and then, suddenly, she’d been freefalling, with nothing to grab on to. Even though her mother had explained some of it, she still didn’t understand the ins and outs. Was her father Ida’s touchstone? Did she need to return from time to time, to test the quality of their relationship? It might have been what her mother needed, but every time she breezed back into their lives a dark cloud came with her. It hovered until it burst, washing away any foothold gained, when her mother walked away again. Ida might have been back ten years this time, but the dark sky remained.

When Steve had cheated on her, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. She’d taken the risk with him, and she’d gotten burned. It was another lesson in love. It didn’t come without bumps and bruises. And it didn’t last forever.

Her eyes fluttered closed. Maybe it did. Her parents had been together, off and on, for over thirty years. She wondered if Rumi had a treatise on that.

When the driver pulled up to the airport terminal, he lifted her carry-on out and placed it at the curb. She

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