Chapter 211: Telling The Truth About Her Past
SEDONA
"There is. And it connects to Chicago, which is one of the reasons I'm telling you together." I paused. Finding the shape. The honest shape I'd been looking for since yesterday. "Nick, I need to tell you something about me. Something you didn't know."
A pause. "Okay," he said carefully.
"Before you were born. Before I met your dad, even—when I was young, around your age and then older, I played tennis."
Silence.
"Competitively," I said. "I was on the junior circuit. I trained for years, I competed, I was—I was good at it." I let that land. "And then things happened in my life and I stopped. For a long time. Eleven years."
Nick was very quiet.
"But recently," I said, "I started again. I've been training here in Seattle. And I've b
