Winning It All (Hometown Players Book 4) by Victoria Denault

Author:Victoria Denault [Denault, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-09-05T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Sebastian

I’m smiling at the fact that this day turned out so very differently than I anticipated and I couldn’t be happier.

When Dix and I originally joined our goalie for a liquid brunch, it was simply to help Chooch, who had called me from a hotel room this morning because he’d walked out on Ainsley the night before. He was contemplating going back to her, and this being the first step to really ridding him of her, I jumped at the chance to meet him and make sure he didn’t weaken. Dix offered to join me. Dix was the most happily married guy I knew and the biggest advocate for coupledom, and even he knew Ainsley was a cancer Chooch need to cut out of his life.

A secondary reason, a selfish one, to meet Chooch was because it was a way to keep my mind off Shay. I was purposely avoiding her. I was giving her time to miss me—I hadn’t been kidding about that. But I also didn’t know what to say about what I’d seen her father do. Or if I should say anything. Not seeing her, though, was torture.

I had decided, right before Chooch called, that I was going to go to Elevate Fitness and talk to her. I wasn’t sure what I was going to say, or if I would mention what I saw with her dad, but I needed to see her again. Whether she wanted to or not, she responded to that kiss in the stairwell. But Chooch needed me, and I never blew off a teammate. Especially because I know Chooch was toying with the idea of going back to Ainsley, and that would be the worst possible thing, for him and our team. He was still playing like shit and I was hoping—we all were—that if she stayed gone he would be able to focus. Still, I wanted to see Shayne again so much I ached.

And then fate intervened, and there she was. When I first noticed her across the restaurant, I wanted to walk right over and grab her pretty head and lay my lips on hers. But Chooch was in the middle of pouring his heart out. I waited as long as I could—about an hour—until I was literally twitching in my seat trying to fight the urge to go talk to her.

“Dude, what the fuck?!” Dix had said and waved a hand in front of my face to get my attention again. He had been telling us a story about how he knew it was right with his wife, Maxine. “You could do to listen to this too. Didn’t your last relationship go all Fatal Attraction?”

“Sorry,” I muttered.

Both Dix and Chooch turned around to see what was so distracting. “I’ve been…involved with the girl over there.”

“The pregnant one?!” I give Dix a withering stare and he laughs. “What? With you anything is possible.”

“The one next to the pregnant one,” I explain, and both sets of eyes turn and stare at Shay.

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