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Island."
    "I turned down every last one of them." Her voice became fierce as she stared across the table at him, wondering why he didn't look surprised, because she'd been shocked as hell. "But their wives cut me off at the knees anyway. If my husband wasn't giving me sex, then I guess they were worried I might ask their husbands for it." She knew her smile didn't reach her eyes. "I suppose it never occurred to them it happened the other way around, or that I was too exhausted to care about such, but I've already lost enough, if it's all the same to you."

Chapter Four

    As he reversed out of his parking spot, Colton was already dreading another long evening at home with a sullen Jonah, slouched in the truck at his side, when he caught sight of Daniel's beefy frame jumping up and down outside the front door to the garage, waving his hands over his head like a flagman at the finish line of Lowe's Motor Speedway.
    With a glance at the young man huddled in the passenger seat, Colton threw his truck into park and turned off the switch, removing the keys. He worried constantly the kid might try something stupid, like trying to drive back to the only home he'd ever known.
    He took the phone Dan handed him. "This is Colton," he said, watching his oldest brother's elaborate shrug in confusion.
    "This is Ken Davis," the man on the other end of the line introduced himself. "Do you know where Berry Field is located?"
    Colton thought the question silly. His company car was a wrecker. He knew where everything was located. "Asheville Highway, across from Cleveland Park," he snapped back, annoyed by the man's tone and the quiz.
    "Have your nephew here in an hour, dressed to play. I'll take a look at the kid. But I'm telling you now; I'm only doing this as a favor to Pete's widow."
    The line went dead. Colton placed the cordless phone back on the charger with a frown. What a jerk. But it looked like Lila had done what she'd promised.
    "Was that what I think it was?" Daniel asked, grinning broadly. A step behind him, his middle brother Eric looked excited as well.
    Colton grinned back, feeling hopeful for the first time since Sarah had died and he'd made the cross-country trip to bring her body and her son back home. "Looks like Jonah gets a try-out after all." The brothers high-fived all around and then followed him as he jogged out of the garage, all three of them delighting in the big grin that crossed Jonah's face when he heard the news.
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    Colton lounged on the wide concrete steps comprising the tiered seating at Berry Field, taking in the surroundings. He'd never actually been inside the gate, but he had picked up a few cars from the parking lot with the wrecker over the years.
    An eight-foot concrete block wall, painted forest green, curved around the close-clipped outfield grass. White numbers were stenciled in three different places along the top of the wall, marking the distance from the plate, he guessed. Baseball was not his thing. The facility had been around a while, though, judging from the way a couple of the majestic river oaks leaned over the wall as if watching the action like the scattered groups of parents.
    The women were seated in a big group, far to his right in the shadow cast by the sun setting behind the concrete risers, while the men stood in groups of two or three, scattered along the tall protective fence separating the spectators from the action on the field.
    Berry Field wasn't a big park, but the field had a certain charm, he supposed. Jonah had turned up his nose at the place when they'd first walked up, but as far as Colton could tell, the kid thought everything was better on the West Coast.
    While part of his brain tracked his nephew's actions as the boy did some stretching exercises, another part of his mind conjured the image of Lila all buttered up on her deck.
    Colton jerked forward suddenly, placing his forearms over his knees and surreptitiously trying to adjust his jeans as he glanced around.