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Coach hears him. “Yeah, well, fuck up again, and I’m about to be the goddamn hardest hitter. I’ll leave you three be. I’ll keep your secret. And I’ll take your promise.” He wags his finger at us. “I want consistency, effort, and perfection in camp, or this is over before the pre-season.”
“Will do, Coach,” Colt assures.
“Thanks, Chris.” That must be Coach’s first name because Beau shares it humbly.
“Yes, thank you, Coach Williams.” So, I put some skin in the game, too. “Goddamn, you have my goddamn promise.”
Coach chuckles, swatting the air as he turns and leaves us to the rest of our retreat.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
“Let’s get him ready together.”
BEAU
“You’re squeaky clean, and it’s a good deal.”
I roll my eyes to the blue sky.
If my agent only knew.
Kelsie Ryan is one of the best at scoring endorsement deals for players, but if she knew how I’m about to make her job hard, she’d drop me cold.
“The Fry House?” I stand at the edge of the dock. Not because the reception is better here. It’s because Colt and Blair are having an annoying one-hit-wonder playlist party by the pool, and I’m about to volunteer to swim with the fish—permanently. “They want me? Why?”
“They’re launching veggie burgers and nuggets, and you score trustworthy with soccer moms and ultra fans, mainly men. You’re perfect.”
“I’m not a vegetarian. Not strictly.”
“Yeah, but you and your shakes have paid off for Plant Power Protein, and that caught the eye of The Fry House. They’re offering two mill.”
Sure, I rake in on endorsements. Lots of players do, especially those of us with clean reps. I’ve never been dumb enough to get caught with my hand in the kinky cookie jar.
But now?
I never had to worry about my personal life. I didn’t have one.
“Hey, Kelz, I gotta fill you in before we take this deal.”
“On?”
I turn around and face my new world.
Blair’s riding on a giant white swan float, and Colt’s on a gold one. They’re singing “Baby Got Back” while Colt’s trying to mount his float on Blair’s. They’re laughing their asses off. They’re my wildest dream and greatest liability.
“On my new girlfriend,” I tell Kelsie. “I’ve known her for years, so don’t freak. I can vouch for her rep. There’s just one thing.” Whoops, I forgot how to count. “Make that a few things.”
I tell Kelsie about Blair’s infamous PGA father, her career as a struggling author, her current job as a sales associate at a luxury adult store, and, “Her latest romance book just became a best-seller, and it’s about me. Well… it’s about us.”
“Please tell me we’re talking Nora Roberts or Nicholas Sparks romance.”
“No,” it makes me smile, “we’re talking about an alien warlord who falls in love with his enemy, a woman, a human he has to tie down and breed to save her people and his.”
Silence. Waves. “Has your girlfriend got the butt?” and Colt’s “Hell yeah!” fill the air.
“Kelz? You there?”
“I’m looking her up, but I’m not finding anything.”
