We won. And now I get to head home to my loves. After the game ends, I head into the the visitor’s clubhouse and get changed. Most days I’ll grab a shower and get a quick workout in before I leave. But tonight I just want to get to the hotel and call Gabriela and Giancarlo.
“You want to grab a drink at the hotel? The guys want to celebrate your slam tonight.” Harrison says to me as I’m changing out of my uniform.
“Nah, I just want to get back, shower and call my girl.”
Harrison laughs. “I understand that. If you change your mind, text me. I don’t know how long either. Otherwise I’ll see you at the plane tomorrow. That was a fucking epic hit tonight. Congrats.”
“Thanks.” I smile.
When I get to the hotel, there’s always a bunch of fans around. They’re always trying to get to us, sometimes I stop and sign stuff for them, but some nights I’m just too tired. But tonight? I have to stop, hitting the grand slam is making the fans louder tonight. So I stop and sign some hats and some posters, take a few selfies with them and then head up to my room. I grab a shower and then order up some food. While I’m waiting for my food, I call Gabriela. We all use Script, a video chat program that my cugino, Sebastiano created.
“Hi, amor! Congratulations on your grand slam!”
“Thank you.” I chuckle as I see her beautiful face.
“Gianluca tried to stay up for your phone call, but he couldn’t. I put him to bed about an hour ago.”
“It’s okay, I’ll give him extra hugs tomorrow. I miss you so much. Why does our bedroom look different? Did you choose a house for us?”
“I did. I really hope you like it.”
“Which one did you choose?”
“You’ll have to see when you get home.”She giggles.
“I love you.” I chuckle.
“So something happened today…”
I frown as I look at her. No one better have done anything to her.
“It’s nothing bad. But it’s something I didn’t expect. My brothers were playing with me. José and Juan put me in a headlock, it’s something they’ve done since we were little. But Giancarlo got really angry. And he called me mamá.”
“Wow! Are you okay with that?”
“I am. But I was worried that you wouldn’t like it.”
“Amore, I love it. Why does it feel like there’s more to this?”
“Maybe we should wait till you come home to talk about the rest of it.”
“No. Just tell me.”
“Giancarlo reacted that way because it looks like Yakov hurt Faith in front of him.”
“Are you fucking kidding me?”
“Did Faith talk to you about what he did to her?”
“Not really, she implied that he was abusive, but I didn’t know if it was physical or verbal.”
“It looks like he choked her out in front of Carlo. He said his mamá fell down after he did whatever he was doing to her.”
I stay quiet for a bit, I’m not sure how to process this new information. Except that know I know that Yakov is a dead asshole.
“I knew I should’ve waited till you got home for this.”
“No, amore. Thank you for telling me. It just pisses me off that he would touch a woman like that and in front of her child? No one I know would ever do that.”
