Chapter Eleven
Teri was assigned to the Single A team in Prentiss instead of Double A. Crush was disappointed; in his opinion, a man with her curveball would have been put right into Double A. But she didn’t let it faze her. In fact, she seemed to treat is as a challenge, and did so well there that in May she was called up to Arkansas, where the Double A Porcupines played.
Crush flew in for her first game. He invited Wendy to join him, but she had a city council meeting she couldn’t miss, and, well, privacy and all that.
Between her job and her desire for secrecy, her elusiveness was driving him crazy. If only she was playing hard to get—he’d surrender on the spot. But she wasn’t playing anything.
When he reached the sports complex where the Porcupines played, he tracked Teri down in t
