The Other Game by J. Sterling

Author:J. Sterling [Sterling, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

New Digs

Jack followed the GPS’s directions, and a few hours later pulled the Bronco to a stop in front of a two-story house. It looked brand-new, and a hell of a lot nicer than our house back home. Not that Gran and Gramps’s place wasn’t nice, it was, but it was just a lot older and smaller than this one.

“This the place?” I asked through my shock. I had wrongly assumed that he’d be staying in some shithole with his teammates, and this was anything but.

“Apparently,” Jack said with a shrug before cutting the engine.

I gathered the mountain of empty fast-food wrappers we’d accumulated during the drive in my arms and walked them to the trash cans on the side of the garage.

“Looks really nice,” I said as I walked back toward the truck.

Jack scratched his head. “It does.”

The front door opened and three bare-chested muscular guys in baseball caps walked out, each holding a beer.

“Hey! You must be Jack,” the tallest one shouted, and Jack dropped his duffel to the ground before walking up the pathway to meet them.

“Yep,” he said, reaching out to shake hands. “This is my brother, Dean.” He indicated me with a nod.

“I’m Tyler, and this is Nick and Spencer. We’re glad you’re here, man. We’ve heard a lot about you,” Tyler said before walking over to me and extending his hand, and I gripped it tightly. “Nice to meet you, Dean.”

“Yeah, you too.” I smiled. He seemed pretty cool. “What position do you play?”

“I catch. Nick here’s our first baseman, and Spencer’s a pitcher.”

“Nice,” I said with a nod.

“I’ll show you to your room,” Tyler said. “After you get settled in, come meet us out back by the pool.”

“You have a pool?”

I couldn’t help but be a little jealous. I’d always wanted a pool growing up, but Gran said there wasn’t enough room. As a little kid, I believed whatever she told me, not knowing any better. I knew now, though, that there was plenty of room in the backyard for a pool, but they most likely couldn’t afford the upkeep and maintenance, let alone the cost of putting one in.

Gran always hated telling us that they couldn’t afford to buy us things, so she made up creative reasons as to why we couldn’t have them. I loved her and Gramps for it, and for all the sacrifices they made in order to raise us. It had never hit me until this moment just how much they’d had to give up when Jack and I moved in. They never went away on vacations together, and the only ones who got new things in the house were me and Jack.

Jack slapped a hand on my shoulder. “You okay? You look weird all of a sudden.”

“I’m fine,” I said, ducking out of his grasp. “Just thinking, is all.”

“Come on. Grab your shit,” he said before following Tyler up the cobblestone walkway.

I pulled my duffel from the Bronco before hustling to catch up. When we walked through

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