The Game Changer by J. Sterling

Author:J. Sterling
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781477808665
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

I Won’t Let Anything Happen to Her

Jack

I knew what Kitten meant last night, even if she didn’t. She felt like choosing between her job or her heart was like being asked to literally choose me over herself. I wanted to blame her, but I couldn’t. She didn’t know what it was like. Not really. To live without the one person you knew you were meant for. I’d experienced the pain of being forced to live without her while I had achieved my biggest dream.

It wasn’t enough.

Having baseball but no Cassie didn’t make me happy. I was pretty sure it was the same for her with photography and no me; she simply hadn’t realized it yet. She hadn’t really been forced to. At least not from the perspective I had been. I fucked up. I lost her. It’s different when you’re the one who made the mistakes.

I tried not to wake Cassie as I dialed the office where Matteo worked. I purposely woke up before her alarm was set to go off to handle this.

“Good morning, Mr. Lombardi. It’s Jack Carter.”

“Good morning, Mr. Carter. Is everything working out with Matteo?” His accent echoed through the phone.

“That’s what I’m calling about actually.” I attempted to explain before he interjected.

“If Matteo’s not working out, we have plenty of other drivers.”

I released an irritated breath. “No, Mr. Lombardi, Matteo’s fine. I wanted to see about booking him longer on the days I have home games.”

“Ah, how much longer?”

“I need him to stay at the field from the time he drops Cassie off until we leave.” I didn’t want to tell this guy my reasons for needing Matteo to stay. I wanted to keep that business as private as possible. “So, that’s probably an extra four or five hours. Is that possible?”

“How many days a week do you have home games?”

“We have about thirteen home games a month, with usually six or seven of them in a row.”

I heard scribbling and the sound of papers being shuffled on the other end of the line. “That shouldn’t be a problem.”

“Are you sure? Because if it is, I’ll need to look into other options.” I needed a straight answer with no bullshit. If this guy wouldn’t give me Matteo’s time, I’d take Matteo from him and hire him exclusively. Or find someone else to do the job.

“It’s fine. Just make sure you give Matteo a copy of your schedule so we can write him off in the books.”

“Great. Can you have Matteo call me when he checks in?”

“Not a problem, sir.”

“Thanks.” I clicked the phone off before breathing out a sigh of relief. I’d half expected more of a battle for Matteo’s time. I appreciated it didn’t come to that. Now I needed to talk to Matteo. I needed someone who wanted to watch out for her, and he needed to be able to put Cassie’s safety above his own. Maybe he wouldn’t like the idea of his pretty little model face being put at risk. I guess I’d find out.

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