Match Play by Blair Babylon

Author:Blair Babylon [Babylon, Blair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950220595
Publisher: Malachite Publishing LLC

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Match Play: Special Edition

Mitchell

The town car growled around them as the chauffeur drove Mitchell and Arielle from Pebble Beach Golf Links to the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco. The last shining sliver of the sun dipped into the ocean as they drove along the shoreline, leaving the inky sky smeared with stars.

Mitchell paused when Arielle suggested they call Emily. He didn’t let people from his life talk to his sister. It wasn’t wise.

“I’m worried about her becoming attached to you,” he told Arielle. “Emily has more of a tender heart than most people, and I’m not sure whether she understands, really, what we’re doing here.”

That last part was intentionally vague because every other way he could have said it sounded derogatory.

Our fake relationship.

That we’re lying to everyone and maybe ourselves.

That it’s just business.

And Mitchell didn’t like any of those phrases anymore, even though they were all included in the contract that he’d written and had seemed fine at the time.

“Yeah, well, I can sit back while you talk to her,” Arielle said. “You don’t even have to acknowledge that I’m here. But you said that you talk to her most days. She seems really nice, and nice people deserve phone calls.”

Oh, Arielle was tired of talking to him and wanted him to do something else. Okay, fine. “Good point.”

He called his sister.

While the phone rang in his hand, the car glided around a curve, rocking him and Arielle in the back seat.

Emily picked up the call. “Hi, sweetie-poopsie! Are you coming home soon? I miss you, and I wish you would come and visit,” she chortled.

“Hello, sweetness-and-light,” Mitchell said, smiling at the side of Emily’s mouth showing on his phone screen. “How was your day?”

“Fine! I had a swimming lesson in the special division at the Y, and I saw Jonas! It’s always so good to see him. I think he’s going to ask me to be his girlfriend. Maybe even get married.”

“That’s so exciting,” Mitchell said, making a mental note to call his mother and see how she’d handled that news.

“And tomorrow, I have work and then my reading tutor and then social skills group. How is your Match Play app doing?”

“Oh, it’s doing fine. We’re getting lots of downloads.”

“Yes, I know. I downloaded your Match Play app.”

Shock zapped him. “What? Does Mom know?”

“No, silly-willy. Mom would have a cow if she knew I’d downloaded a dating app.”

Mitchell needed to call his mother, and it didn’t help that Arielle was sitting on the other side of the car, supposedly scrolling on her phone that lit her face with light in the darkness but also shaking with silent laughter with her hand clamped over her mouth. “Emily, you need to delete that app right now.”

“But it’s fun! Lots of guys are trying to Match with me so we can play Match Play golf.”

“Emily, put Mom on the phone right now.”

“No, don’t tell Mom. I like Match Play. I like talking to people.”

“I know you do, sweet child of our mutual parents, but you can’t be loose on a dating app, talking to strange men.

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