The Quarterback Next Door novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Slow Dance
We took out the earbuds at the same moment.
Cade sat very still with the phone in his hand.
"That was her voice," he said quietly.
"All of it."
"Don't play it for anyone," I said.
"Not my mom, not your dad, not Coach."
"If Paisley thinks it's gone, she'll walk into the stadium sure of herself."
"I'll keep it on the phone, and the phone stays on me."
He nodded and slid it into his pocket.
His hand was trembling a little, so I put mine over it.
The librarian cleared her throat from across the room, and we both sat up straight.
That evening the kitchen smelled like coffee and scorched toast.
My mother had a day off, and she had spread a dress across the table with a sewing kit open beside it.
It was dark green, with a square neck and long sleeves.
"It's from my own senior year," she said.
"I wore it to a dance with a boy who ate too many cheese puffs."
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