Sliding Into Home by Joanne Rock

Author:Joanne Rock [Rock, Joanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Encounters, Category
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

JAMIE HAD PLANNED A SPEECH.

She’d semirehearsed it as a follow-up to her YouTube video in case Lance was nice enough to forgive her for slinking away before dawn after they’d shared the most magical night of her life. That had been a mistake, a knee-jerk reaction to old fears of losing herself in a relationship and not being able to follow her own dreams. But when had Lance ever suggested she be anything but herself? He hadn’t seemed frustrated by her outrageousness. The fake nose hadn’t rattled him. Neither had her leopard-print umbrella.In fact, he’d seemed fairly amused at her tactics. All of which helped her to realize she’d been a fool to run away from someone who knew all about her and liked her anyway.

But when she got an eyeful of him in his batting jersey, his number embroidered on the sleeve and the team name stitched across the shirt, all her planned words fell out of her head. The man wasn’t just a hot guy. He was a New York icon. And in the hour she’d been in the stadium, she’d been read the riot act four times by different fans who all warned her she’d better not distract “their” shortstop from his phenomenal hitting streak.

She rose from her seat, realizing they had an audience of early fans, but they seemed content to give them a little space. A few sections away, she saw some kids running toward them and guessed that wouldn’t last for long.

“So,” Lance began, apparently wise to her tongue-tied condition. “I hear you’ve become a fan of the team.”

He eyed her foam finger and she tucked it behind her.

“You saw the video?” She removed her sunglasses and drank in the sight of him without the barrier of lenses covered in trademarks.

“It’s been up for twenty minutes and my whole team has seen it. The hit count is already over one million.”

She couldn’t tell by that answer if he was charmed by her innovation or skeptical of a romantic declaration some might call tacky.

“I thought it was important to show you that I can deal with a high profile relationship.” She was grateful to see Lance’s teammates take the field for batting practice since their arrival re-routed the swarm of kids carrying balls to be autographed. “After the way I left this morning, I thought you deserved an apology that wasn’t just me spouting words—”

“What apology?” He frowned.

Fear tightened inside her. “I thought you said you saw the video?”

She’d worded it all just right in there.

“I left after the first minute or so because I wanted to see you.” He reached for her, his expression intent and somehow tender at the same time.

“You missed the apology and you still want to talk to me?” She couldn’t believe she would be so lucky to find a man who would let her make such a colossal mistake and not hold it against her.

Hope for a future together unfurled inside her.

“You apologized to me on YouTube.” He seemed to weigh the implications of that.

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