Playing the Field (Hot-Lanta Series) (2 page)

Brady
could feel his nerves start to shake which was very odd for him, he usually had nerves of steel. He had to stay calm, he needed to relax.

He pulled Jane a little tighter as she looked up at him
and smiled. The press loved the intimate look they gave each other and made all the other couples do the same thing. Brady was going to be fine because he had Jane right there with him. She made him feel calm and he was able to shake the nerves that were fluttering around in his stomach.

***

Jane could tell Brady was a little stiff and jumpy but she had no clue why. It made her feel nervous. Was this a big game and she didn’t know about it? She was pretty sure she paid attention to how the team was doing and she was almost positive winning this game against the Pirates was irrelevant.

The press thanked all the couples and they were asked
them to leave the field so the game could get on its way. Jane started to walk off the field when Brady grabbed her arm and dragged her toward the pitcher’s mound.

Jane whispered under her breath. “Brady
, what are you doing?”

Brady didn’t answer he just continued to drag her to the pitcher’
s mound. Jane felt herself go red with embarrassment. She didn’t like being in the spotlight and throwing out the first pitch tonight was hard enough as it was even though there were other player’s wives with her.

When they got to the pitcher’s mound Brady turned Jane toward him.

“Brady, please what are we doing?”

All he did was smile. He turned t
oward the dugout and Marc threw what looked like a ball at him. Brady caught it in his glove and then got down on one knee. Jane nearly toppled over. Her heart beat went into high gear and she for sure thought someone might need to call in the medic for her.

Brady grabbed her hand and looked up at her. His eyes w
ere glistening with happiness and had nothing but love pouring out of them. The stadium went completely quiet and the song ‘Marry You’ by Bruno Mars lightly played over the speakers in the stadium. It was just loud enough to hear. She couldn’t help but cry and look like a blubbering idiot.

Brady opened what Jane thought was a ball but turned out to be a box with the most gigantic ring
placed in it she had ever seen. She was not one for expensive jewelry but she could not divert her eyes away from the gorgeous round cut diamond with millions of little diamonds outlining the center. It was breathtaking. Jane noticed Brady started rubbing his thumb pad on Jane’s hand and she looked down at him.

“Jane you are the most ama
zing woman I have ever met. I love you more than anything and I could not have thought of a better place to ask you to marry me than where our love first blossomed right here on this field. You have made me happier than I ever thought possible. You are not only my soul mate, you are my best friend and partner in crime all I ask from you is that you become my wife as well.  Please do me the honor in becoming my wife. Will you marry me?”

                            ***

Brady waited in anticipation. He knew she was going to say yes, he could see it all over her face. He could not have planned it more perfectly. He wanted to propose to her at the stadium because that was when he realized that he was going to spend the rest of his life with her. When his manager, Deek Jones, announced the upcoming events at the stadium, spouse appreciation day stuck out in his mind. He had wanted to propose to Jane for a year now but he was taking his time with her. He didn’t want to scare her away too fast so he waited patiently until he thought she was ready.

He took Marc ring shopping with him which turned out to be a good idea because for some odd reason the man knew his jewelry. He was tempted to ask Michael to go with him but they were not as close as they use
d to be. After Jane’s car accident Michael really distanced himself from the two of them. Jane was hurt by Michael’s choice but understood his reasoning.

Brady talked to Deek about his idea of proposing to Jane on spouse appreciation day and surprisingly Deek loved the idea, he said it wou
ld be great for the “woman folk,” also known as the female fans. Deek set him up with a PR person in the organization and they helped Brady set everything up. It was hard keeping the secret from Jane since he was so bad at keeping secrets in but he managed to do so and was glad that he did because the current look on Jane’s face was absolutely priceless.

Brady looked at Jane as tears rolled down her cheek. She just nodded at him not being able to talk from pure happiness. He placed the ring on her hand and then scooped her up in his arms kissing her and twirling her around. The stadium erupted in cheers,
whistles and claps. Over the loud speakers played the oldie “Going to the Chapel” and all the players came to the infield to offer their congratulations.

Jane looked up at him and mouthed an ‘I love you.’ Brady gave her a kiss in response and held her tightly as all the guys came up patting him on the back and giving him one armed hugs.

He looked down at his now fiancé and beamed with excitement. She looked so beautiful in his gigantic jersey, hair down in its wavy curls that he loved and makeup streaming down her face. He was one lucky man. He could not wait for the game to be over tonight because he planned on taking his extremely gorgeous fiancé back to their place and having their own mini celebration.

Chapter 2

              Molly lied in her bed smoking a cigarette staring at her phone. Jane called her a couple of times but Molly didn’t answer. She knew Brady proposed tonight in front of thousands of people but Molly didn’t really seem to care.

Wasn’t he just the perfect man? Molly didn’t feel like putting on a happy face and dealing with Jane’s excitement
so she ignored Jane’s incessant dialing. She knew she should be a better friend then that but she was not in the mood.

             
Molly really distanced herself from her friends after Albert and Jane walked in on Molly trying to overdose after Luke’s memorial. They put her through hell when they found out she was pregnant. They lectured her on being a responsible human being and taking care of her unborn child and how Luke would want her to love their child. Molly wanted nothing to do with being pregnant but was unable to do anything about it thanks to the watchful eye of all her friends.

             
Now she was single with no job, thanks to her asshole principal who laid her off stating “educational differences” and had a soon to be one year old daughter named Winnie. She was living off her dead fiancé’s money that he left her which she could live off of for a while. She had no plans to get a new job anytime soon and she had no motivation to do so as well. Winnie was with Luke’s parents, they took her often which was nice for Molly because it gave her a break from the nightmare she was living.

             
She was never the one who really wanted kids, Luke was but he was no longer with her. He left her alone, with a child to raise by herself, which she had no clue how to do. She struggled everyday raising a child on her own. Her friends offered a lot of help but Molly couldn’t help but think they were just doing it out of sympathy. Everyone felt bad for her and she was sick of it. She didn’t want people’s pity she just wanted everyone to leave her the hell alone.

             
She loved her daughter but could not stand to look at her little girl’s face sometimes. She was the spitting image of Luke and it killed Molly. She still till this day, almost two years later, missed him. She missed him more than anything and only wished Jane and Albert did not show up that day she was trying to end her life. She would be with Luke right now and not living this life of pure misery.

             
Even though taking care of a child was not on the top of her list of fun things to do, she had to admit, Winnie was adorable and rambunctious. She just started walking and was getting into all sorts of trouble. Luke’s parents, Marcia and Jim, said Luke was the same exact way.

Every time his parents compared Winnie to Luke Molly died a little every time inside. She kn
ew Winnie was just like Luke, she didn’t need the reminders. She knew Luke’s parents went through a hard time losing their son as well but they had each other. Molly had Winnie who had no clue who her father was and what an amazing man he was or the love that Luke and Molly shared. No, Winnie would grow up without a father, not knowing what it would feel like to have a father figure in her life.

             
Molly knew Luke wanted her to move on with her life but she could not imagine loving anyone else. She took another drag of her cigarette as a very masculine pair of hands started roaming her naked body.

             
“Good morning sexy. Isn’t it early for a cigarette?” said the male voice.

             
Molly put the cigarette in the ash tray next to her bed, took a swig of the bottle of tequila resting on her nightstand and said, “It’s never too early to be bad.”

She held the bottle up to the man’s face and made him take a swig. She ripped the covers off of him,
took another swig from the bottle and straddled him while throwing the bottle to the ground.

             
“Fuck you’re hot.” He said.

             
“You have no clue.” Molly grabbed a condom from her night stand sheathed the naked man under her and mounted his hard center. She watched how he groaned in pleasure from her abrupt attack on his manhood.

She always loved watching Luke’s reaction when he would enter her. It always gave her great satisfaction knowing she was pleasuring her man. Sex now though was just to get her mind off of things. It was completely meaningless to her and merely a distract
ion from her real life. Sex would never be like it was with Luke. She would never make love with another human; she would only fuck them and chuck them.

             
She started rocking up and down on top of the man beneath her and lost herself in the sensations of his dick gliding in and out of her moist center. She threw her head back in abandonment and started to pulsate around the man.

             
“God…Molly you’re so hot.” The man groaned and then thrusted his pelvis toward her in one last attempt to milk himself for all he was worth. Molly felt herself contract around him and they both fell over the edge of ecstasy together. She collapsed on top of him and laid there for a little bit before her alarm on her pone started going off.

             
“Shit!” Molly said scrambling to get off the very naked man in her bed. She grabbed her phone and looked at the time. Winnie was going to be dropped off in ten minutes and she needed to have the apartment back in order before Luke’s parents came over.

             
“You need to get dressed, now and get the hell out of here in five minutes.” Molly said.

             
“You know Molly, it’s been three months now, I was kind of hoping I didn’t have to play this game anymore of fuck and hide.”

             
Molly looked at the man staring back at her with his pitiful deep brown eyes, dark hair and dark complexion. He was extremely handsome and had that macho rugged look going on. His hair was short nothing she could run her fingers through but his body had enough muscles for her wondering hands, thanks to the Atlanta Braves strength and conditioning program.

             
“Look Austin, I told you I need time. I like you but I’m not ready for any kind of commitment. You understand right?” Molly sat on his lap running her fingers around his jaw.

             
Austin cupped her breast in his large hand and massaged it gently. “I know Molly but I just wish there was more to us besides sex. Not that the sex is bad or anything. It’s the most amazing sex I have ever had.”

             
Molly smiled at him. “That’s right it is and don’t you forget it. Listen we can talk about this later, right now I need you out and I need to straighten up before Luke’s parents see this disaster of an apartment. Seriously we need to stop having sex everywhere it only leads to a huge mess for me the next day.”

             
Austin gave her a sexy grin. “Is it my fault I’m so irresistible to you?”

             
Molly didn’t feel like hurting the guy’s feelings, in fact she could do without Austin but she was not going to say that to him. He would make any girl lucky and if she was not still in love with Luke, she could see herself falling for him. He was caring, sexy, athletic and funny. What more could a girl ask for? The only thing was, he wasn’t Luke. He wasn’t Molly’s Man.