Chapter Twenty-three

Zack.

"You cheated!" Levi fumed as he stomped towards me with the ball in his hands.

"I didn't," I argued.

"You tricked me into not focusing on the ball!"

"Isn't that what basketball is about?"

I was currently at Levi's, playing basketball with him at the back of his house. Since Mrs. Brookes once again made me stay home because she didn't want me to work immediately I arrived, I decided to come along with Zoe when she came to pick Isaac up.

I found it unfair that I had to stay home while Elaine left for work considering that we were both self-employed. But knowing Mrs. Brookes, she'd throw me out the moment I stepped foot into the building. After we arrived, Zoe and Isaac went out and I stayed with my brother-in-law, who was quite the sore loser.

He groaned. "I know that you're the basketball champion in the entire Dobre family-"

"And Hudson family," I quickly added and he gave me a sarcastic look. "Come on, say it."

"And Hudson family," he admitted and I nodded in approval