Redeeming Rafe (30 page)
Authors: Alicia Hunter Pace
“Is it a money issue?”
“Yes and no. We’ve got insurance to pay for the storm damage, no problem. But the powers that be think this is a good time to go ahead and raise the rest of the money and do the expansion.”
“What’s the but?”
“There’s no way to raise the money in time to have the work done by fall. We're talking over a million dollars here—though they are fairly confident they can have the money and start by fall. So Joy Daniels has already been on the phone with the superintendent over in Dalton about sharing facilities with Madison Grove.”
Oh, hell no!
“Sharing facilities? With Beauford’s arch rival? How’s that going to work?”
“It’s going to be up to me to get the schedule rearranged so we can play our home games over there on Thursday nights on the weeks they have home games. We can have Friday nights when they’re on the road.”
“But either way, it’s a bus, forty miles, and not at home.”
Coach nodded. “That’s about the size of it.”
“Can you practice here?”
“Maybe. Depending on what’s going on with the construction. My guess is not much.”
“Then where?”
“We can share the middle school field when they aren’t using it, but if we want to practice on the field we’re going to play on, we can have Madison Grove weekdays and Saturdays when they’re finished.”
“That’s going to make for a hard season.” Gabe wouldn’t have said the words aloud, but Coach knew what he meant.
No playoffs, no championship, maybe not even a winning season.
“Don’t I know it, son. I hate it most for the seniors.” Coach rose. “I hate telling them, but it’s got to be before it comes out in the paper tomorrow. Might as well be now.”
“Then I’ll go and give you privacy with your team. I’ve got a few things I need to do anyway.”
“Thank you, Gabe. I’ll see you at the wedding.”
As he walked to his car, Gabe added another item to his to-do list.
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What a story! Pace has nailed writing emotions into her stories … She definitely had me jumping for joy and bawling like a baby more than once … This was a thoroughly enjoyable read that I couldn’t put down.”—Pure Jonel
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