PART 6-CHAPTER 196
LUKE
Steam clung to my skin as | stepped out of the
shower, wiping my face with a towel. Most of the team had already left, only a handful of rookies lingering to run
extra drills with the defensive team. | didn't care to stick around, so when | heard raised voices down the hall, |
nearly ignored. them.
But the tone had a certain edge to it that caught my attention.
| took a few steps, then paused near the coaches’ office. From the slightly cracked door, | could hear one of the
rookies, Michael, sounding furious. | rolled my eyes. Barely on the team and already screwing things up with
? He probably snuck schick into the sta I rolled my eyes and moved away until | caught a snippet of
the conversation.
"You know it's mine!" Michael's voice was insistent, full of anger. "Just be honest! The baby is mine! Tell him you
want to be with me!"
What the hell? He got sgirl pregnant - it's worse than | thought. Poor
quy.
| kept my distance, shaking my head. It wasn't my business. But then, another voice floated through the door,
soft but familiar, pullingto a dead stop.
"Don't you get it? | don't want it to be yours," the girl replied, but her voice was familiar-way too familiar-and
something in the back of my mind snapped into place.
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"I have no future with you. My future is with him."
Francesca.
| was shocked for a second, gripping the towel around my waist. | didn't know what to do. Was this real? A
fucking nightmare again...
My mind scrambled, racing back over the last few months.
| should have barged in and pushed this rookie's face through a wall, but | couldn't move. | wanted the truth, and
he was giving it toon a silver platter, even if she didn't know it.
Michael's voice rose again, seething. "You toldhe hasn't finished inside of you in months! You always have to
give him a blow job just to get him to finish! You toldthat! | might be young, but | know how fucking babies
are made! I'm the one that has been fucking finis The blood ran cold in my veins. | couldn't make sense of it. |
watched through the crack in the door as Francesca stepped into view, her expression caught between defiance
and shame.
"Michael. You madefeel... beautiful. You really did, and if it will help you sleep tonight - then yes. You are the
father because Luke and | haven't had sex that ends with him inside ofspilling himself. That has been you,
and |
am sorry we weren't more careful. It's my fault. | should have known better, but we can't be together just
because of a baby. I'm 10 years older than you, and | need a man who can provide forand my baby."
It was like a slow-motion nightmare. |
felt a strange calm settle over me,
almost clinical. Thisklas whatit had
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PART 6-CHAPTER 195
Without hesitating, | pushed the door
open. The noise startled them both,
and they spun around, frozen as |
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rage or usion-| felt a raw,
bone-deep certainty. "We're done," |
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She opened her mouth, the
beginnings of sexcuse or
apology there, but | held up a hand.
She fell silent. My eal Shoulda!
Peep aris y hands
should've been shaking, but all | felt
was the numb realization that I'd
been clinging to something that was
never r Without another word, |
turned and walked out, leaving
Francesca and Michael in the silence
| should've seen coming all along..