Winning the Right Brother by Abigail Strom

Author:Abigail Strom
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2010-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

It was a cool October evening, perfect football weather, and Holly sat in the stands next to Tom Washington’s parents. She’d thought about Alex a fair amount last night and during work today, but for the last hour and a half she hadn’t thought about him at all, even though he was right below her, clearly visible on the sidelines.

She was too busy thinking about the game.

The score was tied. There were three minutes to go in the fourth quarter, second down and eight with Weston on their own thirty-five yard line. For the twentieth time that night Holly jumped to her feet in outrage. “Did you see that?” she said to David and Angela Washington, waving her hand toward the field. “How could the ref miss that call? Pass interference! That should be a fifteen-yard penalty and an automatic first down.”

“Not only that,” Angela said, and if looks could kill there was one referee who would have been good and dead. “They roughed the passer, too. Charlie’s still down.”

It was true. A sudden hush fell over the crowd, home fans and visitors alike, as Weston’s trainer trotted out onto the field to look at the Wildcats’ starting quarterback, Charlie Mazillo, who was lying on his side clutching his left leg.

“Oh, no,” David Washington said. “I think it’s his knee.”

Whatever it was, it had obviously ended the game for Charlie. He had to be helped off the field, leaning on his coach and his trainer, to a round of obligatory applause from the stands.

“Those bullies,” Holly said furiously. “I can’t believe they’ve been getting away with this kind of crap all night. My God, these are high school kids.”

Angela shook her head. “Yes, but this is Ohio, and we play our football for blood.”

“Alex doesn’t,” Holly said, her voice positive. “He plays to win, but he doesn’t play dirty.”

David sighed. “Alex is rare. He’s a coach who plays the game the right way and can still maintain a winning record. Most of them can’t manage that.”

“And to think I was starting to like this game. Maybe I had the right idea all along.”

“Hey,” Angela said suddenly, looking down at the sidelines. “Coach is sending Will out there.”

Holly gripped the other woman’s hand in sudden panic. Her baby boy, going out on that field to face that gang of thugs?

Angela patted her on the back. “Don’t worry. Will’s tough, and he’s smart. He can handle it.”

“What do you mean he can handle it? He’s fifteen years old. Charlie’s a senior and he couldn’t handle it.”

“The referees will call a cleaner game after this. They’ll have to.”

“Oh, sure they will,” Holly muttered, watching Will trot out to the huddle. Even from up here she could tell he was panicking, too. This wasn’t a series or two in a game they already had sewn up. This was three minutes to go in a tie game, a game they’d only kept tied by the incredible play of their starting quarterback, who’d just been injured by a vicious hit from the Steeltown defense.

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