Her Alaskan Family by Heidi McCahan

Author:Heidi McCahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2024-05-02T19:31:25+00:00

Chapter Seven

The ninth inning of the softball game couldn’t end soon enough.

Savannah stood in the outfield, dragging the toe of her sneaker through the grass. She fiddled with a loose thread on Wyatt’s well-loved mitt and tried to pay attention to whatever was happening at home plate. Her thoughts wandered easily. Since the story-time debacle on Monday, the week had flown by in a blur. She’d kept Wren occupied and put in long hours on the parade float. There was still so much work to do before the parade next week. She’d rather be up to her eyeballs in papier-mâché than spend one more minute playing softball.

Mainly because this particular reunion activity reminded her way too much of her high school PE class. How ironic that she stood here on the field as an adult with almost the exact same cast of characters. The only highlight of the afternoon? Well, two highlights actually—it wasn’t raining, and she had a great view of Levi’s muscular shoulders.

He’d been roped into playing shortstop, and for all his protests that he didn’t want to be part of this particular reunion activity, he’d played well. One of his at-bats had brought in a teammate who’d scored a run, and he’d caught the ball once, making an out for the opposing team. She, on the other hand, had cost her team dearly when the ball dropped onto the grass and rolled between her legs, allowing a runner to get to second base. Then she’d struck out twice. Three cringey details Candace had broadcast to anyone and everyone. Savannah glared at Candace, who was waiting on deck to bat. Why did the woman care so much about winning a casual softball game? And why did Savannah let Candace get to her so easily? Levi glanced over his shoulder and smiled, pulling her from her spiral of negativity. Wow, he was handsome. And such a good sport. Still smiling in spite of his brother and Candace’s juvenile behavior.

“Yay, Lee-by!” Wren’s adorable cheer drew chuckles from the handful of spectators sitting on the metal bleachers outside the fence.

“You’ve got this, Candace,” Jasper called from the dugout. Their teammate had just struck out. Candace strode toward the batter’s box, already yammering at the man who’d volunteered to be the umpire. Jasper and Candace had conveniently been placed on the same team, and they’d made it very clear they fully intended to win. Savannah had never cared about the score in any game in her life. At least, not any sporting event in recent memory. But today she sort of cared. Mostly because she wanted Levi to smile at her again.

“What are you, twelve?” she scolded herself quietly.

The pitcher tossed his first pitch to Candace. Please not to me, please not to me, Savannah silently pleaded. Thankfully, Candace swung and missed. Savannah resisted the urge to pump her fist. That wouldn’t go over well.

Levi glanced over his shoulder again. “Get ready. This ball might be coming your way.”

“No, no, no.” Savannah shook her head.

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