Throwing Love #4 (Throwing Love #4) (7 page)

“I cannot believe what I'm hearing right now. Are you
seriously asking me to give up my career? A career that you wanted me to have
with your father in the first place? You aren't even making any sense right
now, Emmi.”

“Don't tell me how I'm feeling. You have been pushing me
away for weeks, and you just expect me to be here at your beck and call
whenever you feel like picking up the phone to call. We don't have a
relationship right now. I don't even know what to call what we have, but it's
disgraceful. We had something great until you stopped going to your practices.
All I'm asking is that we go back to the way things were. Stop pushing me away
and invest in us.”

“I don't know what to say.”

“I want you to have a career in baseball, Bennett, but not
at the expense of us, our relationship. Why would you want that? Why are you
throwing us away over extra practices?”

“I'm trying to get to the major leagues, Emmi, in case you
didn't know.”

“You can get there easily without killing yourself and us
with these extra practices. Stand up for your talent. You're all star for a
reason, for God’s sake.”

“What do you want from me? I'm doing the best I can right
now.”

“Dammit, Bennett! I want you to fight for us. If you love
me, it’s a pretty easy request.”

Bennett stood there like a deer caught in the headlights,
speechless. I could see by the look in his eyes that he was weighing his
options. The decision should have been easy, but he was acting like it was life
or death. I couldn't even be sure if he wanted to choose me at all or if he was
okay with letting me go.

“Stay with me, please, Bennett.”

His expression grew more frantic as his mind went in many
different directions.

“I'm sorry...but I have to go.”

He turned from me then and walked out of my bedroom. I
didn't bother to get up and follow
him;
there was nothing more that I could say to him.
I had given him every reason in the world to stay and he had walked out on me.
I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but I knew that one day he would regret
it.

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