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Logan:Damn. My plan was to have an excuse to stop by tomorrow.
Jeni:Guess you’ll have to think of something else.
Logan:Yeah?
Jeni:Sure. I won’t be here.
Logan:Working?
Jeni:No, I’m driving to Lawrence for the day to see a friend.
Logan:That’s too bad. We have a softball game tomorrow night, and I thought you might want to play.
Jeni:No! Seriously?
Logan:Yep.
Jeni:I want to play so bad. But I can’t cancel on my friend last minute. It’s almost November so I assume the season’s almost over?
Logan:We have two more next week. A few of the earlier games were rained out so we tacked on one more week at the end. One on Tuesday night and the Championship tournament on Saturday.
Jeni:Count me in if there’s an open spot.
Logan:I’ll check and let you know.
Jeni:Thanks.
Jeni:I guess. :)
* * *
Four days later, Logan knocked on Jeni’s front door. Shawna, one of the three women required to play coed softball, had sprained her ankle playing soccer with her son yesterday. It wasn’t a grievous injury so Logan wasn’t an asshole for being a little pleased about it, right? Shawna was out for the last two games, which meant Jeni had an open invitation.
Better still, she agreed to let him pick her up.
Jeni opened the door. “Hey.”
“Hey.”
Shit, she looked sexy with her hair pulled in a high ponytail and legs clad in tight-fitting pants. He’d always been drawn to athletic women.
He handed her the team shirt he’d brought.
She took it but didn’t move. “I’ll just change in the car.”
“What?” Logan croaked.
“What? I’m wearing a sports bra under here,” she said, tugging at the hem of her Nebraska T-shirt.
Logan was about to protest further when Rhonda approached, followed by Valerie and Jeni’s mom.
“You’re so sweet to take Jeni to play softball,” her mom cooed.
“She misses it,” Rhonda said.
“She had a full scholarship to play at Oklahoma, you know,” Valerie added. “You should let her pitch and watch the strikes pile up.”
“Jeni was the star of our little farming town,” her mom said with a sad cluck of her tongue. “Did she tell you about what happened?”
