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“And you just got on a plane and flew across the country?”
“Yes.”
“That’s crazy.”
“Yes.” Her laughed floated through the air. “But you were considering the same thing a few days ago when Casey got hurt.”
“That’s different.”
“How?”
“Casey was hurt.”
“Casey’s fine. Tyler said you needed me.”
He lifted an eyebrow at that. “He did?”
“So, I’m here.” She leaned up and kissed him, her hand still enveloped in his. “I had a lot of time to think of the plane, Drew. And I figured it out.”
“You did, huh?” His brain was still spinning from her kiss, from the reality of her being there. With him.
“I did. I’m all in. One hundred percent. I never said that to you before you left. We didn’t make that clear. I want you to go for it, to make this season the best you’ve ever had. Go out swinging. Is that the right phrase to use?”
He kissed her scrunched up nose. “If you want it to be it is.” His lips moved to hers as his arms came around her waist, his glove still on one hand.
Her arms wrapped around his neck, sinking into him, right where she belonged.
He pulled back and looked at her. “You save me, Baylee. You’re my Adrian.”
Her smile lit up his world. “Yeah, I guess I am. You okay with that?”
“I’m more than okay with that. I don’t want to do this– anything– without you.”
“We can do this Drew. I’m all in. Are you?”
“You’ve got me. All of me.”
He picked her up and twirled them, her skirt flying around them.
Then he set her down and kissed her again, this time to the applause of his teammates who had gathered in the dugout.
Tyler whistled, which echoed through the empty stadium. Baylee laughed, his favorite sound in the world. This. This was all he wanted. Baseball in his life and Baylee by his side.
