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Histo me I mean, who could say that they had a porn star as a mother?
He was likely one of the best third base average than ninety percent of the baseball league—Or so I’d read on the Internet
The one and only thing I could say that I knew about him, other than what he’d just shared with me, was Renata
He had a sister—and the only reason I knew that little tidbit was because his sister had been the one to call while he’d been in the hospital Well, technically I guess I knew that she was deaf, too
But that was it
I didn’t know his favorite color I didn’t knohy he slept with his feet facing the headboard—that one had thrown ht I’d checked on him and found feet where I’d assumed his head would be I didn’t know his passcode for his alarm, either
Every hts I’d stayed with him, he had had to disarm the alarm and allow me to come in He wouldn’t even put me in as a temporary user
Sighing in frustration at how little I knew theup bacon
Then served the obstinatecare of the week’s worth of laundry he had accu
The entire rest of the day, however, I wondered if I was in over my head when it came to Rhys Rivera
But I didn’t have to wonder very long
I knew it six weeks laterChapter 12I’m somewhere between a donut and a juice cleanse
-Henley to Rhys
Henley
Six weeks, three days, one hour, and thirty-seven minutes later
I was in lust with my employer
There were no ifs, ands, or buts about it
He was also annoying the shit out of ht that very moment
“You were released just barely five o” I paused “And not to run, but to walk You had a traumatic brain injury, Rhys”
Rhys looked at htened out in front of him while he drove himself to the baseball field
And not the professional one The kid one that the young teenagers played on during baseball season
Apparently, it was on the ‘South Side’ as he dubbed it, and rarely used
It also, I realized about five minutes later, had no upkeep whatsoever when the field wasn’t in use
The grass was up toI could see eeds There were no defined lines where the bases were There were also no bases