Pitched by Ella Goode
Epilogue
A few years later
“You feeling good, man?”Freddie Martinez asks. “What you got there?”
“Don’t talk to him,” snaps Hank, the pitching coach. A monster hitter, the rookie just got called up from the minors and doesn’t know the unwritten rule that if a pitcher is in the middle of a perfect game, you don’t bother him.
I don’t look up from my glove. What I have is a photo of GG. This one was taken yesterday, and she’s got a huge smile on her face. One hand is shading her eyes and the other is wrapped under her belly. Our first baby is coming soon—and by soon, I mean a few more months. It’s July, and each day is getting hotter. I made GG sit up in the WAG box because the heat at the ballpark is getting intense.
She says it’s too hot to be pregnant and that her sweat is sweating. I’m not sure what she means by that, but I don’t mind it because the outdoors isn’t the only thing that is getting steamy. Lately she’s been extra horny—can’t keep her hands off me, sex in the car, finger fucking in the locker room with the trainer just around the corner. It reminds me of back when we were in high school and we rescued her from the weird-ass fake prophet, who is still in prison. Not for kidnapping but tax evasion. The man had been taking cash donations from people and not reporting them to the IRS. The IRS is scary, man. Don’t fuck with them.
But back then, I was scared she was going to be taken again. I wouldn’t let her get more than ten feet away from me. I slept outside her house in my car until her grandparents relented and let me into the house. They gave me a spare room, but I’d creep into GG’s after the lights went out and eat her out on her small twin bed. She’d have to cover her face with a pillow so no one could hear her moan. At school, I totally abandoned my classes and sat next to her, my foot hooked around the leg of her desk. After class was over, I’d have to take her again. Sometimes, it’d just be up against the wall at the end of a library stack, her skirt rucked up, her cheek pressed against the wood paneling and my hand reaching around to pinch her clit while I pounded her from behind. Other times, I’d take her in the locker room, bent over a bench with her tits swaying every time I drove into her tight cunt. My balls tighten, and the urge to get to her soon swamps me.
I’d never admit this in an interview, but the reason I throw so few pitches is that I want to get to GG. She’s the one that pumps the blood in my heart. I love baseball. I do. I love this game, and I’m so fucking honored that I get to paid to play it, but my heart belongs to GG. I get up in the morning and thank God she’s sleeping next to me, and when I get out of the locker room and see her smiling face waiting for me, I feel like I’ve won at life, no matter how the game went.
“You’re up,” Hank tells me.
“Six more batters,” I reply and slide the photo into the pocket of my playlist.
She’s waiting when I’m done. I bend down and press a kiss against her lips. “I stink,” I say.
“It’s honest sweat.” She presses a towel against my temple. “Go shower and do your press conference.”
I drop my now dry forehead against hers. “I don’t wanna,” I whine.
“You pitched a perfect game. Go get your flowers.”
I don’t move.
“Sooner you go, sooner you’re done.”
“Is this old man complaining about the press again, Mrs. Broussard.” Booker sidles up beside me. He went to Harvard law and is now an agent. I think he might make more off his roster of athletes than I do.
GG laughs. “He is. You better get him into the showers or he’ll try to escape.”
“Come on, Colt. Sooner you face the cameras, faster you’ll be done.”
“That’s what I said.” GG swats me on the ass to get me moving.
Booker grabs my non pitching arm and starts to drag me toward the locker room. I reluctantly give GG one last kiss and do what I’m told. The shower takes two seconds, but the press conference feels endless. How do you feel? Tired but happy. What went through your mind during the last out? Wonder what position GG wants me to take her in after the game. Last night we did reverse cowgirl and I watched her titties bounce while she rode my dick for an hour. Take us through each pitch? Each pitch? Are you out of your mind? Do you think you deserve another Cy Young? Yes?
Of course, I don’t say those things. I give rote, acceptable answers like I’m happy to be considered for the Cy Young, and getting to the locker room and putting ice on my shoulder was what I was thinking about.
After what seems to be a century later, but is only a couple of hours and a thousand congratulations, I’m allowed to escape. When I emerge from the tunnel, I heave a sigh of relief. I had expected a bunch of fans, but other than a few cars, it’s nearly empty except for my beauty standing next to my black and red Lambo.
She waves her hand, and my heart swells. Seeing her is better than pitching a perfect game. Winning her love was more important than the World Series. I pick up my pace until I’m all but running, rushing to snatch her up and spin her around.
“What is this?” she cries happily, bracing her hands on my shoulders. I let her down slowly, allowing her bump to glide down my chest. My baby’s in there.
“I’m just happy.”
“You should be. You pitched a perfect game.”
“Nah. I pitched a perfect life.”
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Lovelies:
Are you up for some baseball? I’ve a couple of books just for you this summer. Stay hydrated and get ready to steam up those windows.
xoxoxo
Ella
