Love at Bat by Elley Arden

Author:Elley Arden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2013-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“I can’t believe you won’t come see your nephew.”

Tired of the same old conversation, Grey leaned on the granite countertop. “It’s not that I won’t. I can’t.” He still had two bathrooms to remodel and a truckload of Dad’s junk to move out.

“Are you in prison?”

Looking around the completed kitchen and into the gleaming great room, Grey thought about the hell he’d walked into six weeks ago. Back then, it felt like a prison. Not so much now.

“You caught me,” he teased. “But they’re allowing me to have my cell phone on account of good behavior.”

“Be serious.”

“You’re the one who brought up prison.”

A heavy sigh came from Jordon’s end of the phone. “Grey, where are you? And before you say Nashville, think again. Hoffman had meetings at the stadium last week and he stopped by your place, hoping to take you for a beer, said he found a Fed Ex slip stuck to the door dated a month ago.”

Grey took a deep breath and delayed his exhale, holding in a groan. He couldn’t keep the truth from Jordon much longer, and he shouldn’t have to. The house was days from being done. Hell, if he spent less time in bed with Nel, he’d be done already, the house would be listed, and he’d be holding his baby nephew in one hand while he beanbag tossed on Jordon’s lawn with the other.

That had been the plan before he learned the terms of Dad’s will. Plans changed, and now there was this house … and Nel. A part of Grey was dragging his feet when it came to finishing up and leaving, but he couldn’t defer forever.

He was expected in Tampa in two weeks.

It was time to face facts. With Nel’s brothers’ help, this house could be done in a few days, four max. Then Grey could head south, stopping off at Jordon’s on the way.

“I’ll see you next week,” he said, ignoring the cloud of uncertainty hanging over his head.

“Fine, but when you get here I’m going to ask you again where you’ve been, and it’s going to be a lot harder to brush me off in person.”

True. Grey knew hoping for the house to sell before he arrived at Jordon’s was too much to ask, but a part of him did anyway. It would sure make things easier. Knowing a supersonic sale wasn’t going to happen, he’d just have to keep up his dubious ways. It would all be worth it once he handed Jordon the check, like their father should’ve done all those years ago. Then they’d be that much closer to closing the door on the old man’s memory and driving in the bolt lock. Then, only making things right with Tag would be left.

An hour later, as Grey laid tile in the master bath, he contemplated everything from shipping the dogs back home to Nashville and finding them in-home care, to leaving Nel and when he would see her again. She said he didn’t need to be present for closing once the house sold.

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