Sterling Streak (Sterling Falls Book 3) by L.B. Dunbar

Author:L.B. Dunbar [Dunbar, L.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.B. Dunbar Writes, Ltd.
Published: 2024-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

[Ford]

Surgery in mid-April meant four months recovery at best. Time ticked painfully slow. I’d been constantly irritable and, at times, irrational about how quickly my body should heal. And as much as I wanted to lay on my bed, down pain pills, and sleep away my days, I had three little girls counting on me.

Vale stayed in Chicago after that fateful game. She’d been a huge personal help, tending to me while Blake minded my girls.

By the end of May, though, Vale had missed a good portion of Hudson’s baseball season and had put off her own physical therapy clients long enough. She needed to return to Sterling Falls.

“You should come home,” she says only days before she is scheduled to leave.

“I can’t.”

“Can’t? Or won’t?”

Such a simple question left me puzzled.

There wasn’t any real reason to stay in Chicago for the next few months. Ross Davis had come to visit me.

“You need a break. I’m putting you on the IL, indefinitely.”

“You can’t do that.” My arm throbbed. My head ached. I couldn’t be cut from the team.

“I can and I am. You need help here and here and here.” He’d pointed to my chest, my shoulder, and my head. “You’re in a fucked up position but it’s fucking with the team.”

Mental therapy sessions were mandated on top of my injury list status, since professional sports teams no longer took emotional health for granted. As Ross said, I’d need my heart, my arm, and my head in the game, and my head was still messed up when it came to Romero and Felicity.

With all that had happened, Romero had only gotten a three-week suspension for our fight. He started all of this bullshit. With Felicity. With me. But Ross had made up his mind. Between Romero and me, I was the loser.

Thankfully, my divorce was legitimized. I dropped the forgery charges when Felicity dropped her countersuit for extended alimony. Any alimony for that matter. She’d been given a considerable settlement upon the sale of our home last winter. With no contest from Felicity, I had full custody of the girls. One day, she might change her mind about that decision, and I’d leave it up to the girls whether they saw her or not, if Felicity requested a visit. For now, that concern was on the back burner. We were free and clear of one another, but my ex-wife was still Romero’s girlfriend, and he was still my teammate and that made for one helluva an awkward hate-triangle.

“The girls have school,” I remind Vale. I’d already taken Zelle and Winnie out of their school during spring training. Zelle had missed her friends and we’d made it back in time for a new softball season for her. Not that I’d get to see many of her games. The disappointment was a constant conflict.

With summer staring me in the face, I didn’t have a plan, and suddenly I had the summer months off. Originally, I thought our au pair would handle everything

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