Playing To Win by Stacey Lynn

Author:Stacey Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub

13

Jude

A tightness in my chest eases as she accepts my offer and I can’t help but touch her. Katie’s always been skittish, but when she says she’ll come to my parents’ house for Christmas, it’s like I can actively see her trying to fight through that and I’m so damn proud of her.

So damn happy she’s giving me a chance.

“So, your brothers. You’ve already told me about Jake and I knew he was married, but now two are?”

“Yeah, Kiera’s the teacher. They’ve got two kids, Harper and Asher. And Joey just got married last spring to Lenora. He’s out playing in Las Vegas, so we don’t see him much.”

“The only one to head west?”

“Yeah, he was moved there from Pittsburgh when their expansion team started a few years ago. He’s doing well. I follow him, but we don’t play them but maybe once a year. Definitely seems to like the weather and he’ll be bitching all week about the cold, so you’ve been warned. Lenora’s born and raised in Vegas, so neither of them like coming back here.”

“Noted.” She laughs and takes a sip of her drink. “But really, who can blame them. The winter’s here are brutal.”

They sure as hell are and it’s only December. It’s amazing how you can be gone for only a year or two and then be smacked in the face with the biting chill of the Windy City. It’s almost enough to make me wish I would have sucked it up and stayed in Charlotte for rehab. But then I would have missed seeing Katie and having this time with her. I’ll take the cold so brutal it makes my balls shrivel.

“Charlotte’s not bad in the winter, though,” I say, teasing her, but also meaning it. If she hates the cold enough, maybe she’ll consider visiting me, or more, but we’re way too new and there’s too much uncertainty to spring that on her.

“What’s it like there?”

“Gorgeous.” It was the first thing I thought when I flew down there. I’d been from the airport to the arena and hotels before to see Jason play on the rare trip my family took back when I was in college, but suddenly living there was different. “It took about two weeks for me to fall in love with everything about the city and the area. The fall is incredible. I can take weekend trips to the ocean or the mountains. I don’t think there’s anything more spectacular than the Blue Ridge Parkway at sunset.”

She’s soaking in every word, brows raised, blinking slowly with long eyelashes that accentuate her light brown eyes. “Do you live near Jason?”

I can’t tell if she’s changing the subject or not, but I’ve already told her about the house I bought which in all honesty is way too big for me even if it’s not a mansion or anything. But I got sick of living in a building without space to be outside and enjoy the weather all times of the year.

“No. Jason still lives in a condo downtown.

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