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“Too late. You can’t take it back now. It’s out there, so I expect you to deliver, Kendra Bowie. And, preferably, deliver and deliver and deliver.”

“Aspen…”

“What?”

“I’m in public.”

“You started it.” Aspen laughed.

“God, I did. But you’re so hot, babe. I have to watch you walk around in a bikini all the time. You even wear it in the backyard. Do you know how hard that’s been for me?”

“I do now.”

“You’re mean, you know that?” Kendra laughed a little.

“I just practice how I play. I can’t help it that that’s the uniform. They just started letting us wear pants a few years ago.”

“I think that second drink is starting to hit me because I never get like this.”

“Like what?” Aspen asked.

“Telling someone I want them how I want you.”

“I wish you were back in your room.”

“No, you don’t,” Kendra replied.

“Yes, I do.”

“No, you don’t, because you don’t want us to do that. You want us to go out.”

“I do, yeah,” Aspen confirmed.

“So, I should go get some water and then take a car back to the hotel. We can talk about that when I get back.”

“No, I like you tipsy. I want to keep talking.”

“I can’t. I’m being rude, but I… I should go. I just wanted to hear your voice.”

“I’ll see you in a couple of days.”

“Night, Aspen.”

“Good night. Text me when–”

“I will,” Kendra interrupted. “I promise.”

CHAPTER 30

“You’re here this time?” Kendra said when she saw Everly walk up to them after the match.

“I had a meeting with the team,” Everly shared and wrapped her arm around Wyatt’s waist, settling against her wife’s side. “We’ve launched an internship program for people who are in grad school for psychology to get them interested in sports psychology specifically. Since Wyatt and I have an obvious in with this league, we started it here this year. I’m running it, among other things, but I had no idea we’d get pregnant again this quickly when we first started planning out the program, so I was meeting with someone who would run it for me when I go on maternity leave. She’s here and works for the team.”

“What? That’s amazing. I didn’t know that.”

“Yeah, it’s been a lot of work just to get it up and running. We had to get some interest first and then funding since it’s a paid internship program. I’m not a fan of unpaid internships, personally. I mean, it pays barely anything, but it pays something, at least, so we had to go through a lot just to get it moving. We started with four interns, but I hope to get it up to ten next year and then one for each team in this league to work with an experienced sports psychologist, but that’ll be in a few years, at least.”

“My wife is at the top of her field,” Wyatt stated proudly. “Did you know that?”

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