Cole by Cat Johnson

Author:Cat Johnson [Johnson, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

It amazed Cole how things worked out sometimes. One moment life could be great and a man might think he could actually get everything he’d ever wanted. Then the next, just a split second later, nothing is the same.

That scenario seemed to happen to Cole a lot in his life. There was the meteoric rise, followed by the ultimate crash and burn of his baseball career. Then there was the mind-blowing discovery that he had a son by the very woman he couldn’t get out of his mind, followed shortly by the discovery that she didn’t trust him. Not one tiny bit. Maybe it was him who didn’t know her the way he thought he did.

If Lizzie could believe he was the kind of man who would try to take their son away from his mother, then they had no hope of a future together.

Future. Yeah, that was the other thing currently weighing down his already overloaded mind. Lizzie had no future thanks to him. Cole had come to that disconcerting realization last night after seeing her in that horrid black and white polyester waitress uniform. Lizzie had given up her college scholarship and her dreams of becoming a teacher to have his baby. Waiting tables instead of teaching, and it was all his fault. He felt like shit knowing that.

Of course she couldn’t have gone to college. How could she have lived in the dorms as an unmarried, pregnant freshman in her second trimester? And since then, she’d been raising his son and trying to make enough to pay for his future by slinging greasy food at Mac’s diner.

Cole shook his head. She’d been stupid not to tell him, or maybe brave. Probably a little of both. There were women he’d come across in the pros who tried to get pregnant with a ballplayer’s baby, just so they could take him for all he was worth. Then there was Lizzie, hiding it from him for years and wanting nothing now. His anger over her secret had faded to mere frustration. He didn’t understand why she’d lied. Pride, maybe? The same thing that was keeping her from wanting his help now. He supposed he should respect that, but all he wanted to do was shake some sense into her so she’d let him take care of them both.

The morning sun was creeping higher in the sky as he stood at the Bartons’ back door. Cole took a deep breath. He was facing not only his son, but also Lizzie’s parents for the first time since the great ball-field revelation yesterday. They definitely weren’t going to be too happy with him.

He knocked on the wooden frame of the screen door, something he hadn’t done the night before when he’d seen Lizzie alone and crying in the kitchen.

Mikey ran to the door, half a corn muffin in his hand. “Mr. Ryan. Mom said you were going to stop by, but I didn’t believe her. Did you really used to play ball

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