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give it a rest?”
    Tyson opened the door for his friend as he grabbed his phone. “Mark. See you at Oliver’s in a little while. He’s fucked up his knee. I’d say he needs some distraction.”
    Oliver didn’t hear Markus’ answer, but appreciated Ty’s gesture.
    “And bring along Grandma Hazel. Tell her she’s got a patient to look after.”
    Oliver stopped in his tracks. “You’re a bastard.”
    Tyson grinned.
    Grandma Hazel was Ty’s grandma, and a lovely person. He and his friends had spent a lot of time at her place as kids, enjoying her delicious cakes or dinners. And still did.
    But having her babysit him? No way would he survive having her around for twenty-four hours, seven days a week. He’d have to come up with some kind of excuse.
     
    ***
     
    Tamara was cursing all the way back to the stadium and into the office. How could she have let herself go like that? Why had she been so tense knowing it was a simple knee problem and not life threatening? Throwing herself into her office chair, she groaned. She rubbed her neck and grimaced at the thought of her behaviour at the hospital. Even now, her cheeks heated with embarrassment. As exhaustion took hold of her, she wasn’t able to hold back the tears and walked over to the desk for tissues to blow her nose.
    “Hey there.”
    She startled.
    Erik came closer to pull her into a hug. “Are you all right?”
    Shaking her head, she sobbed into his chest, “Going to the hospital wasn’t a good idea.”
    “Sorry, Tammy. I should’ve thought about that, but I think the frustration of it all took over and I thought he’d be in good hands with you. Asking one of the girls in the office to accompany him would’ve possibly resulted in the news being spread all over the Internet within minutes. I need to keep this at a need-to-know basis, so the rest of the team can focus on the games ahead.” He hesitated and then added, “Without neglecting Oliver, that is.”
    Tamara put some distance between them. “It’s okay. I thought I’d be fine, but obviously—” She didn’t finish the sentence. She didn’t need to, her tears said it all.
    Erik nodded. “I just called him. He said you seemed a bit out of sorts. He asked me to assure you that everything is all right. With the knee anyway.”
    She looked up at him.
    Erik shrugged.
    With a frown, she asked, “What?”
    “The baseball career seems to be over, though. We need to see how the surgery goes.”
    With a big sigh, she sat down on her chair. She hadn’t known Oliver long, but she knew how hard the guys on the team trained towards a career in this sport. The season was nearly over, yet for the first time they were doing fine, in part thanks to Oliver. Spirits were high. They didn’t need a setback like this.
    “How will he take it?”
    Erik shrugged again. “It won’t go down well, but Oliver is not one to give up easily.”
    She could only imagine.
    Two hours later, Tamara sat in the car, driving through Melbourne’s streets to the address she’d found in the office files half an hour earlier. Fortunately, it wasn’t far away, and within minutes, she found herself in front of Oliver’s house. She hadn’t been able to stop thinking of him, and the idea that baseball might be over for him. It had to hit him hard. What she’d understood from her uncle was that baseball was his life, even if he hadn’t chosen a career overseas. It was still in his heart and soul. She didn’t know him, but she hadn’t been able to suppress the urge to see him, to make sure he was all right.
    Tamara stared at the small house and was surprised to find something so suburban. The house looked more like a cottage with an English garden in the front. Wild, but looked after. She couldn’t picture him down on his knees, digging for weeds or planting seeds, and assumed someone else helped him out. There were two small trees in the back corner next to a little path that led behind the house and to the garage. She