The Senator's Wife by Lyon Jen

Author:Lyon, Jen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doss About Publishing
Published: 2023-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

ALEX WAS A half an hour late to her own birthday dinner. She’d told Caleb she didn’t want to go out, but he’d flown all the way to California to see her, so she’d finally agreed to a brief, low-key celebration not too far from her new apartment.

As she climbed out of the Uber, she realized she should have walked. At least then she would have had an excuse for running late.

Caleb had her car. He’d arrived early in the morning from a job he’d been on in Atlanta and could only stay two nights before he had to get back to the worksite. A new high school stadium or gymnasium, Alex couldn’t remember. She’d left her keys tucked up in the bumper and told him she had a PT appointment in Berkeley, but could catch a ride with a teammate and wouldn’t be back until evening. Then she’d jogged across the street to the waterfront cafe and watched out a rain streaked window for him to arrive and drop his bag at her third story apartment before leaving with her car.

There was no physical therapy session in Berkeley. She didn’t even have training that afternoon—it was their first day off since preseason camp had started a week earlier—but she didn’t tell him that.

Not that Alex would have been doing much in training, even if it hadn’t been a rest day. She’d come up sore the second day of camp with swelling in her left ankle. Nothing serious, the medical staff assured her—a touch of tendonitis (undoubtedly a result of overtraining during off-season; a fact she chose to ignore)—but Rodney Collins, the new head coach for the Sirens, didn’t want to take any chances. With preseason less than eight weeks away, he needed the squad sound and healthy. With the amount of money riding on the success of the team, Collins had been placed under an immense amount of pressure to perform. But even still, the former Youth National Team coach placed his players well-being as top priority. So he’d pulled Alex to low intensity workouts until the tenderness abated.

Her disappointment at being unable to give a hundred percent to her new squad was ironically dissipated by a call she received the morning after she’d been placed on the injury list. It was the morning before New Year’s Day.

It was Isabelle Atwood. The iconic, no-nonsense, famously hard-nosed coach for the US Women’s National Team. The senior squad manager minced few words to tell Alex she’d been impressed with her productivity throughout the end of the previous season, and if her performance continued as it had been, she’d be extending an invitation for her to train with the team at their late winter camp in Colorado. She didn’t have to tell Alex that it was the camp that would help determine the roster for the SheBelieves Cup—the last major tournament before beginning CONCACAF qualifying for the following year’s World Cup.

“This conversation is not an official call-up,” the woman had finished the phone call curtly, “but consider it a call-up.

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