Page 111 of Caught Stealing

My grin is instant when he takes a tentative step toward me. “I said get your ass over here.”

Phoenix picks up into a jog, only slowing to a stop when he reaches the base of the wall. “I don’t have long, but what are you doing here?”

“We came to support our guys.”

Well,Iwanted to supportmyguy. The others were just along for the ride.

“We?” Phoenix asks, but where he’s standing doesn’t allow him to see anything more than straight up at me. “Who else is here?”

I nod over to the three idiots I just left behind. “Luca, Harrison, and Noah are over in the next section.”

There’s a little smirk of amusement on his lips when he says, “Careful there, Sykes. You might make your teammates change their tune about baseball after all.”

Yeah, so not happening.

“Considering Luca and Noah are currently bickering about whether or not baseball should have also called the shortstop a second-baseman, I think I’m safe.”

One of those genuine, sinfully addictive laughs leaves him, and he shakes his head. “Probably makes you regret inviting them already.”

I let out a low hum. “Mmm, more like Harrison is regretting it, since he’s the one currently dealing with them.”

His lips lift in a small smile. One that makes me wish I could jump down into the field right now and kiss it clear off. “Well, I’m glad you’re here regardless.”

“Me too.” My gaze flicks over his face, noting the smear of black on each of his cheekbones. “You know, eyeblack has no reason for being that sexy.”

“Unlocking a new kink, are we?”

I bark out a laugh. “What can I say? Apparently, I’m a sucker for a guy in uniform.”

He scrapes his teeth over his bottom lip, his eyes raking over my upper body. “Yeah, I’ve gotta agree, especially when it’s you in mine. Though I am curious how you got it in the first place.”

“Theo,” I tell him with a soft laugh. “Guess we’re not the only ones capable of stealing stuff from the locker room without someone noticing.”

A scoff leaves him. “Glad to see whose team he’s really on here.”

“I mean, I’d say he’s onourteam.”

His head cocks to the side. “So I take it he told you he knows about us,” he muses.

My brows shoot to my hairline. “Wait,youknow he knows?”

All he does is nod, and I wonder how neither of them letthatlittle piece of information slip.

Unless…

“Does he know you know he knows?”

Phoenix nods again, this time with a light laugh. “God, this feels a lot like that one episode ofFriends.”

I roll my eyes at his incessant love for the show. But his reference to the episode triggers something in my mind, if I’m remembering it correctly.

“I doubt he’d be the only one on our side, you know.”

His brows draw down beneath the bill of his hat. “What do you mean?”

Licking my lips, I utter some of the most dangerous words I’ve dared since the night I snuck in his room. A subject I haven’t touched in over a month.

“Theo isn’t the only one who cares about both of us. And he certainly can’t be the only one who’d want both of us to be happy.”

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