The Rookie's Mistake
A Second Chance, Grumpy-Sunshine Pairing Sports RomanceBy Reese Calloway
Length8h 18m
About this audiobook
Cole Weathers is supposed to be a September call-up. A cup of coffee. A name the fans learn next year.
Then the regular starter gets scratched with a tight oblique, and Cole is standing in the tunnel at the home opener with forty-seven thousand people above him, rubbing the manufacturer's label on his glove until there is nothing left to fray.
The first pitch sails high and inside and puts the batter in the dirt. The hitter gets up, dusts off his jersey, and gives Cole a look that says he doesn't belong here.
In the clubhouse afterward he expects the manager. He gets Ruby Calderon instead: compact, dark curls escaping a ponytail that gave up hours ago, a scar above one eyebrow. She says one thing on her way out.
*"Run with me tomorrow at dawn. No excuses."*
Ruby runs the conditioning. She talks about energy plans and protein ratios and three weeks of adjustment, and Cole tells her he doesn't have three weeks. He has four weeks before they decide whether he goes back to Triple-A.
So they run the Willamette at dawn, and she asks questions, and neither of them is especially good at answering.
Ruby had a brother named Mateo who played shortstop and had a partial scholarship to Oregon State, and she has never told anybody the whole story about the car keys and the crash.
Cole made a promise about seeing Dr. Chen. What he is not saying is how long it has been since he actually went.
Then Ruby watches a courier she does not recognise walk a padded envelope down the players' hallway, follows him from behind a stack of pallets, and hears Ethan Slater's voice at the bullpen junction. Somebody has been moving equipment that should not move, and a vial of testosterone cypionate has ended up on team premises.
Whatever is going on, Cole is standing close enough to it to be destroyed by it, and the only person he trusts to find out who wants him hurt is the woman who drags him out of bed before sunrise.
A baseball romance about a blown start, a conditioning coach who does not say please, a therapy appointment somebody skipped, and a story that has to come out before somebody's career does. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Pitch That Cost Me Everything
3Chapter 2 - The Run That Changed Everything
4Chapter 3 - The Tunnel Where I Almost Lost My Mind
5Chapter 4 - The Promise I Never Intended to Keep
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6Chapter 5 - The Cabin Where Secrets Spilled
7Chapter 6 - The Night We Shared a Blanket
8Chapter 7 - The Weight Room That Held a Trap
9Chapter 8 - The Courier Who Came Too Often
10Chapter 9 - The Date That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
11Chapter 10 - The First Time I Called Her Mine
12Chapter 11 - The Game That Almost Brought Us Together
13Chapter 12 - The Kiss That Didn’t Happen
14Chapter 13 - The Afternoon We Stopped Pretending
15Chapter 14 - The Chili That Sealed Our Fate
16Chapter 15 - The Vial That Changed Everything
17Chapter 16 - The Secret I Had to Keep
18Chapter 17 - The Month We Were Perfect
19Chapter 18 - The Night Everything Broke
20Chapter 19 - The Lie That Cost Me the Only Good Thing
21Chapter 20 - The Three-Strike Nightmare
22Chapter 21 - The Therapist Who Saw Through Me
23Chapter 22 - The Locker That Held Too Many Secrets
24Chapter 23 - The Second Betrayal No One Saw Coming
25Chapter 24 - The Letter I Never Sent
26Chapter 25 - The Photo That Opened Her Heart
27Chapter 26 - The Grand Gesture That Cost Me My Pride
28Chapter 27 - The Game That Wasn’t About the Score
29Chapter 28 - The Future We Built From Our Mistakes
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Reese Calloway
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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