My Team Cut Me on Stage for a Younger Star, So I Took Last Place to the Final novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: Signal

I walked across the street in my socks.

Moberly didn't get out of the car.

He sat in the back seat in a pressed white shirt with the gold pin already on it.

"You couldn't buy the team, so you bought the house," I said.

"I buy what's for sale, Joel. The widow wasn't. This was."

He sipped his coffee.

"Win all you like on Saturday," he said. "You'll be doing it from a motel by October."

"Five kids live in there."

"Five adults. You keep telling everyone that." He smiled. "Adults find apartments."

The window went up, and the car pulled away from the curb.

Bodie was standing on the front step behind me with the letter in his hand.

"Thirty days," he said.

"Thirty days is past the final," I said. "So we play in the final."

On Saturday the arena in Long Beach held six thousand people, and it was the loudest room I'd ever coached in.

Lose in the upper bracket and you got a second life in the lower one, but we didn't want to need it.

Chicago was the first seed.

They hadn't lost a map since July.

Toni was on the pre-show desk at the end of the floor under hot white lights.

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