The Soccer Star's Forgotten Wife novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Pregame
The stadium screen in Commerce City was forty feet wide.
At six o'clock on Sunday, November eighth, my face was on all of it.
I was on the grass for the warm-up in my black jersey, with twenty thousand people finding their seats.
The boos started in the north stand and went all the way round.
Somebody threw a sponge.
It landed by my boot, yellow, the kind you clean a kitchen with.
Robin picked it up on her way to the fourth official's table.
"Souvenir," she said. "I'm framing it."
"They're not wrong to be angry," I said. "They've only heard one side."
"They've only heard one liar." She pressed my arm. "Twelve rows up, behind the bench. Look."
I looked.
Cody was in the stand in his gray fleece.
Junie was beside him with her stopwatch held up over her head.
She wasn't booing.
She was the only person in that section who wasn't.
The integrity man had found me in the referee room an hour before.
"He's in the owner's box," he'd said. "Front row, same seat. My people are in there too. Don't look at him. Don't do anything that makes him nervous."
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