Chapter 25
Brooklyn didn’t think too much about her conversation with Alex until the next day. Right in the middle of practice, one of the players came trotting over to where the ladies were. He ran to pick up a ball, but there was no way it came over to their part of the field by accident. It had to be some sort of trick.
This time, Hayden came over. At first, she thought he was coming to talk to Holly. When she looked over at Holly, she was watching his approach and straightened up, but then he ran right by her. Holly’s face fell into a scowl and she looked away. Hayden stopped right in front of Brooklyn.
“Hey, there,” he said. “Sorry to intrude. The ball got away from me.”
“Sure it did,” she said.
“Hey now, there’s no reason to be like that.”
He did have a charming smile, she’d gi
