Team Player by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

REN

“I don’t even have to ask if it’s all true,” I spoke to his back before he had a chance to get to her hotel door.

Lucas Wild turned to me, and I cringed at the way I’d put him on a pedestal for so many years. A legend, a player I’d looked up to since I was a child.

The woman I loved had his eyes and his skin tone, but that was where it ended. I’d credited him for far too much. It all made sense and began to click as I watched him sink into his guilt.

He was the reason why Erica didn’t want to date a ballplayer. Lucas was the reason Erica never wanted to go home for the holidays when we were together, despite her mother’s desperate invitations.

Even when I’d managed to talk her into going home, she’d been reserved around everyone, especially her father. I’d let my excitement in my budding friendship with Lucas dull the intuition that something was off.

But it had always been there, and it didn’t help that Erica’s mother had done just as good of a job of covering up the truth. Erica had been raised to lie, to cover for him to keep his reputation.

Lucas Wild was not who he made himself out to be. Had never been.

The man was a living lie. And she’d swallowed her pride and loved me enough to clean up my mistakes and do the same for me.

It was like a punch in the gut, and suddenly I was furious at my inability to look past my own dreams to see her fears. I’d been so goddamned blind.

“Ren, this is personal,” Lucas said with a quick excuse.

“Goddamn right, it is,” I said, stepping in front of him and blocking the door.

“You’re going to have to excuse us, I need a word with her,” he said, as he attempted to push past me.

“I don’t think so,” I said adamantly as anger radiated from me.

“She’s my daughter.”

“She’s my future.”

“You’re overstepping, Makavoy.”

“No, I’m protecting her. A job you never did.”

“You don’t know what you’re talking about. She’s exaggerating,” he said nonchalantly.

“Oh?” I said, taking another step forward. “So, tell me about your daughter.”

His mouth clamped shut.

“Come on, give me anything. Tell me one thing about her.”

“You need to step back from that door,” he said in warning.

“You don’t know anything about her, do you? God, I can’t believe I looked up to you. Treated you as a friend, and she was hiding it from me, to protect you.”

“Again, you don’t know what you’re talking about,” he snapped.

Even as he tried to defend himself, his eyes were full of guilt and regret. That was something, but not nearly fucking enough.

“No, I believe I do know what I’ve been talking about. You see, I’ve been listening, something I wasn’t good at before. I know that now, and I’m working on it.” I took a menacing step forward. “What I know is there’s a beautiful woman on the other side of

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