Chapter 9 · free to read
Day nine, afternoon. A meaningless warm-up. Ten scouting notebooks open around the rope.
Three fours in five balls. They were not guessing at him. They were waiting for him.
A mystery has a shelf life. Somebody had read the date off the label and left it out in the sun.
Her contract said flag anomalies to the franchise. It did not say which anomaly, or how quickly.
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