The Player by Felice Stevens EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Felice Stevens
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They say you can’t go home again.
But here he stood, on the field of his former glory years, thinking of
those Friday night lights and cheers so loud, if he stopped to listen,
memories of them still whispered in the sluggish, late August air.
The crowd rose to their feet. The quarterback launched a perfect spiral
to him, and he raced into the end zone with four seconds left on the clock
and caught the winning touchdown.
“Keller! Keller!”
The ground shook, and the state championship was theirs. His
teammates piled on top of him, then carried him on their shoulders.
At seventeen, he’d thought the world was his.
“Keller? That you?”
He spun around to see his old teammate, Bobby Contard, standing by the
fence. God, he looked…old. Thinning blond hair and a paunch most likely
from sitting in a recliner, downing too many beers in too short a time. The
same wide, goofy smile.
“Hey, Bobby. Yeah, it’s me.”
“Son of a bitch. Keller Williams. It’s really you.”
They stood face-to-face, former teammates who hadn’t seen each other
since they’d left for college. Keller had been drafted to the NFL while
Bobby had flunked out, returned home to their small Upstate New York
town, and gone to work at Home Depot.
“How’re you doing, Bobby? Been a minute.”
“Longer than that, but yeah.” A quick duck of his head. “Sorry about
your arm. Sucks, man.”
Devastation came in all forms. For Keller, it was a bad hit that had
upended him as he’d been about to make a catch. It knocked the wind out of
him and sent him crashing to the ground, his arm bent at a frightening,
unnatural angle. He’d heard the snap, and before passing out from the pain,
had known with overwhelming clarity that it was the last time he’d ever
play football.
“Yeah. It’s healed okay now, but man, I can tell the weather better than
those people on TV.” He forced a grin.
“Whatcha doing back here? Just passing through and come to see your
old haunts?”
“I’ve been back other times. For my mom.”
Just saying it brought the inevitable, knife-twisting pain in his gut.
Bobby scratched his head. “Oh, yeah. Sorry about that.”
“At least they got the bastard who hit her.” A drunk driver had taken the
Main Street curve too fast and hit an icy patch, sending his car spinning out
of control. It had smashed into a group of people in the parking lot of the
Overlook Diner. Three wounded, one dead. His mother, Patricia Williams.
She’d been out celebrating her sixtieth birthday early with her girlfriends.
The next morning, she was to have gotten on a plane to come visit him for a
fabulous weekend together in Vegas. Keller had made all the plans for them
—spas, shows, and a spectacular dinner. Instead, he’d found himself
making arrangements for her funeral.
“And to answer your question, no, I’m not passing through. I’m coming
home.”
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