Chapter Twelve
As October turned to November everything continued to increase in intensity. The drive to the title for the Cade State women’s soccer team got progressively more serious, with Dani Reilly cast in the leading role more emphatically than ever.
Since their sole loss where she was red-carded Dani had been in inspired form, tearing opposing defenses apart in truly dominating fashion and establishing a dramatic new winning streak. Her press clippings were increasingly glowing, and she was even featured in a short TV piece on a national cable sports network. That Cade State would cruise to the championship was being taken for a given, and in private Dani had even accorded her lowly slave some of the credit. With me basically rewriting each of her papers and spending as much time
