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"How about this? We’ll each do a round on the pitching ets to claim a prize from the other?"

She leaned back to look at ly "A prize?"

"Yup Whatever the winner wants," I dared her

She stared"Okay," she nodded "You’ve got a deal" She took a step back and held her hand out tocute

"Ladies first," I offered, waving her towards the cage

I watched her as she squared up and took swing after swing, connecting each time With each hit shethe bet Luckily, sheto win this thing

"I was in the zone there, Jackson Think you can top that? You’d have to be dae

"I think I’e"

She looked estively as she wagged her brows at e and waited for the first pitch There was no way I was going to miss any of these I wanted that prize I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it, but fuck if I wasn’t going to try my hardest to win it

I took th right now It was all about accuracy I just needed to make contact each time, and I didn’t have a lot of roo atdistracted like I had been earlier I only had a fewho-song voice "I wonder what I could do withto her was just enough forto draw my attention away froain I was so close to winning that I could almost taste it If I missed one more, it was a tie The next pitch came and I tipped it for a foul, but it counted Only one ht as the ball ca towards me I took my advice to Kaylie earlier and kept , rin as I watched it connect with the bat

I dropped the bat and spun towards Kaylie as she ca, do you?"