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“So She’s not part of this equation Alith the Laney Peppercorn thing Damn it”

He threw the gear in park and stared ahead at the offices attached to the far end of the stadium The concrete was stained with black streaks I heard hiain I liked to rile him up about her Every once in a while I’d throw in she was the first girl I’d ever slept with, but that just rubbed salt in the wound He’d been hung up on her for his entire senior year and never had the balls to ask her out

That wasn’t ot what I wanted because I went after it In high school it was Laney Peppercorn Last night it was Alexa Wilde God, she orth every second of missed sleep

Linc reached for his briefcase I guessed he thought it made him look er of the AFA’s highest-rated quarterback

I eyed the corporate offices

So to save n I wanted to punch so about it He didn’t knowto put a thousand grand on the table alked in, betting he didn’t know a fucking thing about football

“Let’s get this over with,” I grumbled

We both stepped from the truck and made our way to the McCade offices

“Just let uy off in the first five minutes”

“This is fucking bullshit” I tapped the elevator button

“Yeah, but it’s the bullshit I handle, so keep your mouth shut This is what you pay me to do”

We stepped inside the elevator and counted the nuht he could actually i here was a statee This was a corporate issue Not soh touchdowns I could throw to get al and human resources This was the bastard’s only way to

The doors retracted and alked down the hall to the conference roohts buzzed overhead The corridor had the sa down a school hallway

“I didn’t get that girl pregnant,” I clenched my teeth If all hell broke loose alked in that rooht think he could pushI didn’t do

Fatherhood wasn’t going down on my list of sins