Down and Dirty (Second Chance Sports Romance) by Cheryl Douglas

Author:Cheryl Douglas [Douglas, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cheryl Douglas

Chapter 8

Olivia

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Driving Landon’s car was a rush I wouldn’t soon forget, but the sight of the man himself walking out of an old neighborhood haunt with his sunglasses on and his sleeves pushed back to reveal his tanned forearms made my heart race without warning. I expected that reaction during sex. I expected it when I was driving a powerful car. I’d even anticipated it after seeing him for the first time in years. But feeling it now could only mean one thing: I was falling for him again.

Ugh! How’d I let that happen?

He crawled into the driver’s seat I’d vacated and held up the brown paper bag bearing the deli’s logo. “Got all your old favorites here.”

It was unnerving to be with a man I didn’t really know anymore, yet knew so well.

“I get the feeling you’re trying to seduce me with food.”

He laughed while a group of teens stopped short of the deli’s door to admire his ride.

Landon waved at them before peeling out of the parking lot.

“Does it ever get old?” I asked, settling in. “Being admired like that.”

“They were admiring the car,” he said, stroking the leather steering wheel. “Not me or my accomplishments.”

I tipped my head back, watching him shift gears. “But the car wouldn’t be possible without the accomplishments. None of it would. Isn’t that why guys like you buy cars like this, to announce to the world that you’ve accomplished something big?”

“Never thought about it like that,” he admitted, lowering the volume on a classic Bob Seger tune we’d both loved in high school. “It’s a symbol of success, for sure. Long after people have forgotten me and my name, what I did for my team, I’ll still have little mementos of my glory days, like this one.”

“You ever think about it?” I asked, trying to understand the man he’d become. “What it’ll be like when you have to retire?”

“Sure, I think about it. I’m not a kid anymore.”

“So?” I pressed, knowing it was probably none of my business. “What will you do?”

He pulled into a small clearing with a dirt parking lot that overlooked a man-made lake. We’d always loved this spot, so I wasn’t surprised he’d chosen to take me here.

He cut the engine and sighed. “What will I do?” he asked, removing his seat belt. “I’ve always loved the game, so maybe I’ll get into coaching or open a facility to train kids.”

I smiled at the picture he painted. “You still love kids, huh?” He’d always helped out with the kids’ football teams when he was in high school, assisting the coaches any way he could, just because he said he loved seeing the kids fall in love with the sport the way he had.

“Sure.”

“Why don’t you have any of your own then?” It suddenly occurred to me I was making a lot of assumptions. While I hadn’t heard about a baby mama in the news, didn’t mean there wasn’t one. And damn if that thought didn’t crush me.

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