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Dad lets out a strangled noise, his upper body shaking. He understands what I’m saying.
“Okay, Ryder,” Mom says, still pretty confused.
“I’ll probably be up there a good half hour.”Shit. It’s like I’m giving my parents permission to fuck.
I watch as my dad gets up and stands behind my mother. He wraps his arms around her and pulls her back into him. Fuck. He’s totally an ass man. I need to hurry and get back to Tillie and forget I saw this.
“Better make it an hour, son,” Dad laughs.
Mom gives out a strangled gasp and then turns to bury her face into Dad’s chest. “Oh, God,” she mutters, heat blossoming on her face, making me want to smile again.
“Will do,” I mutter under my breath, turning away from the lovebirds.
Until today I liked to imagine my parents as people who had no interest in sex. Now, I may need to step shit up with Tillie so she can put me in a sex coma and make me forget I know that my father is an ass man and gives it to my mother on the regular.
Damn it! I shake my head and close the door. I take my cell from my back pocket and flop down on the small twin bed in my childhood bedroom. This bed is a torture device on my big frame. I sure as fuck didn’t miss it last night in my girl’s bed.
My girl.
I like the sound of that. Tillie’s going to make me work for it, but I’ll put it in.
Especially if the reward is her.
I dial Green’s number by memory. If there’s one thing that I can say about being with this team, it’s that we’ve all become kind of a family. There’s not one man on the team that I don’t get along with, even after a loss when tempers are close to the surface for all of us. I know for a fact that’s not the case in most teams and I’m grateful every day that ours is different.
“Hey Ryder, make it back in town already?”
“Uh… not exactly,” I murmur, frowning because Green sounds like he’s at a party. “Did I call at a bad time, Coach?”
“Yes and no,” he mutters, sounding frustrated.
“I’m not exactly sure how to take that. Would it be better if I call back?”
“Doubtful, unless you know someone in the police department in Dallas.”
“Come again?”
“It seems my mother just got arrested.”
“Ida Sue?” I ask and shit, she’s not my mom and I’m panicking.
“Yeah,” Green sighs, sounding bone-deep tired.
“What on earth did they arrest her for?”
“She wasn’t wearing her seatbelt.”
“They arrest you for that?” I find myself asking. I don’t quite understand any of this.
“Well, normally, they will just give you a ticket. That’s what should have happened.”
“Can’t your brother-in-law help? He’s a cop, right? Or heck isn’t one of your million brothers a cop, too? Don’t those guys try to watch out for one another? You know, like you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours kind of thing.”
“Luka and Black are both trying, but I’m not sure it’s going to help.”
“Well, it should. I’ve never heard of someone getting arrested for not wearing a seatbelt.”
“Mom probably wouldn’t have been either if she hadn’t let her temper get the best of her.”
