Playing To Win: The Complete King Brothers Collection (A Contemporary Romance Box Set) by Teagan Kade

Author:Teagan Kade [Kade, Teagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Teagan Kade
Published: 2021-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

EPILOGUE

ONE YEAR LATER

TITUS

“Titus, you’re up.”

I take up my bat and head to the home plate. Low wind, big crowd—perfect conditions to send this sucker into the stratosphere.

The nerves are gone as I take a warm-up swing. I’m used to this now. It’s just like going to work, another day at the office—when your office is Fenway Park.

My old nemesis Joe Pearson is pitching tonight. His journey hasn’t been too dissimilar to my own. It’s almost nostalgic coming together like this again. But, like me, he’s all business.

He squats, lines me up, and it happens.

A phantom pain right where he clocked me back at Crestfall a year ago, right in the middle of my head. I swing, but I’m way off, the crunch of the ball into the catcher’s mitt behind me signaling a strike.

Fuck.

The pain deepens. I try to force it away, shake it off, but it remains.

The second pitch and it blooms again. I swing, the ball skimming the bottom of the bat but still finding its way to the catcher.

I pinch the bridge of my nose, but nothing is undoing this thing.

Coach is yelling something, but not even his usual buzz saw of a voice can get through to me.

The third pitch, a fastball, and I barely swing.

The ball collides with leather and something is unlocked, a switch flicked in my head.

“You’re out!”

I remember.

I remember everything.

Everything.

The entire world filters away as I head back to the dugout, too much information to process at once flooding into my head now the gates have opened.

I never thought this day would come, and here of all places.

I take a seat and stare at the ground between my feet, the bat I was holding falling from my hand.

It wants to overwhelm me. There’s too much. I can’t.

A cold sweat breaks out, a nervous tremor starting in my head.

“Titus.”

It’s Maya.

I stand and face the gate, see her there with our beautiful baby girl Amelie, the tiny league cap she’s wearing slanted to the side.

The panic falls away, shed at the sight of the two most precious things in the world to me. Everything is suddenly so clear.

I reach for Maya’s hand, stroke the back of it with my thumb, Amelie’s hand’s reaching out for me, for a cuddle. I take her and hold her high on my chest. She plays with my ear, looking into it like a miniature explorer. She’s just like her mother—a brilliant, inquisitive mind.

I look into Maya’s eyes, never want to look away. I see more in them now than ever before. I see us before the accident, the first time we met at Peyton and Erin’s party, our first kiss, our first…

“Titus?” she repeats, sudden concern at the no doubt look of complete stupefaction of my face.

“I remember,” I tell her.

She looks at me quizzically. “What?”

“Everything,” I laugh.

Concern turns into surprise. “From before?”

“Everything,” I repeat. “It came back.”

She rushes forward to hug me, the gate between us, Amelie cooing in delight. “Oh, Titus. Should I call a doctor?”

“No,” I laugh.

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