Love Under Two Introverts by Cara Covington

Author:Cara Covington
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romantic, Contemporary, Romance, Erotica, Romantic Erotica, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Published: 2014-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

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“Hey, ump! You need glasses!”

Clay covered his mouth so he didn’t laugh out loud. The “ump” in question—Clay’s uncle, Caleb Benedict—stood up from his squatted position behind home plate and pointed a finger at his heckler. In this case the heckler was Tasha, who’d protested, along with a lot of folks, his ruling that Shaun was “out” at the plate.

He had to agree with her and the others who’d chosen to protest the call. Shaun had indeed made it home “safe.”

“Well jeez!” Tasha harrumphed and then sat down in her seat next to Clay. “Shaun was safe, everyone could see that!”

Samantha Kendall, who was sitting in the next row up from them in the mid-sized spectator stands at the high school ball diamond, laughed. “He most certainly was—unless you factor in the age and size rule.”

Tasha turned to look at the older woman. “The what rule?”

Samantha nodded. “My brother-in-law, Northrop, who founded the Saturday afternoon baseball league here in Lusty, added a few extra rules to the game.”

“The main one being, if you’re bigger and older against the person tagging you out, you’re automatically out—whether you are or not.” Henry Kendall sat beside Gord. He didn’t sound too happy about that rule, either.

Clay and Gord had Tasha between them, which suited all three of them just fine. No one seemed to notice overmuch—well, except for the sweet smiles from his grandmother and his aunts Bernice and Abby. Clay examined his feelings, knowing that most everyone who saw the three of them together knew they were “involved.” Surprisingly, he realized that he was fine with that.

If things went according to plan, he and Gord would marry Tasha before the end of the year. In Lusty that would just be a case of situation normal.

“Is that fair?” Tasha asked. “Isn’t baseball supposed to be fair? No gimmes, no cheating?”

“Hell, no, it’s not fair,” Henry’s brother, Morgan, said. Sitting beside his mother, he spoke without taking his gaze from the playing field. “As I recall, the reverse is also true. If you’re older and bigger and tag one of the runts out, they’re safe. Every damn time.”

Tasha turned and met Clay’s gaze. Then she looked at Gord, who only shrugged. “It’s true, darlin’,” Gord said. “And every chief umpire since Northrop Kendall has reinforced that rule. Think of it as baseball, Lusty style.”

Tasha laughed and shook her head. “Only in Lusty,” she said.

Clay agreed with that assessment. And as he watched the game progress, he had to admit he agreed with the rule, too.

Life came with enough things stacked against kids. Why shouldn’t the smallest and youngest ones experience a guaranteed victory once in a while?

The other consequence to that rule, as far as Clay could see, was that the little ones were coveted players, instead of being the players picked last. The older players clearly understood—and maybe that was the entire point of Northrop Kendall’s rule—that a team only benefited from having smaller, less “accomplished” athletes on its roster.

Tasha must have come to the same conclusion.

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