Page 8 of Lucky Laces
And it’s why I force myself to keep staring at it even when the arrows and Xs and Os keep swimming on the screen.
Three
Diana
“I toldyou I was going to stop by the store tomorrow.”
I smile at the grumpy tone as I carry the bag of groceries into Ernest’s house, bending to kiss him on the cheek.“AndItold you it’s the least I can do after the other night.”
Ernest sighs, shakes his head.“That fiancé of yours is going to give you trouble, missy.”
“Ex-fiancé,” I mutter.
“Thank God for that,” he says shutting the door behind me and following me down the hall.“But still, trouble.”
Unfortunately, he’s not wrong.
Jason has been blowing up my phone—to the tune of several hundred calls and texts.
Why is this my life?
Only…nope.
I’m not allowing the cheating manchild to drag me down, and I’m not going to let his bullshit infiltrate my life.
Instead, I’m keeping a record of his crazy.I’ve verified that he doesn’t have any legal tenet rights because he wasn’t living in my house long enough (and, seriously, thankfuckhe dragged his heels for so long to make the move and saved me one headache at least).AndI changed the locks and all the codes on the keypad entry systems.
I’m good.
Work is good.Like usual, it’s keeping me busy, but it’s also keeping my mind off the fact that Jason…is Jason.
And the fact that—arguably worse—I put up with him for as long as I did.
If I had any girlfriends, I would have told them to dump his ass.
Yet…I stayed and put up with it and?—
Now I’m here.
Alone and with a hole inside me when I should be on top of the world.
“How’s that team of yours looking?”Ernest asks, thankfully
“The boys are doing great.”
We have a few things that need tweaking, a few players that are struggling, but we’re six and two, and that’s a hell of a start.Of course there are seventy-four games left in the season—not counting playoffs—so we have a long way to go.
But we’re getting there with the mood in the locker room—though Pat Franklin is still a blight on the roster.
My biggest problem is figuring out how to mitigate him and Duncan and Kane.
The team is locked into contracts and their attitudes are well-known through the league, so moving them is challenging.Most especially Pat, who’s the worst of the bunch and has what basically amounts to a no-trade clause because any of the teams on the list of six he was allowed to name in his contract won’t touch him with a ten-foot pole.
Then there’s Hudson.
Who isn’t a troublesome player by nature—he works hard and hangs with what I mentally consider (even though I know this isn’t the right coaching move) the Good Crew.
But he isn’t adapting well to my tenure as head coach.
