Chapter 118

• Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen
• The pressure was physical. It was the sound of studs hitting turf, the grunt of players colliding, and the relentless thud of the ball being lashed into the Starlight box.
• Park, the Starlight keeper, was forced into a fingertip save in the 37th minute, parrying a stinging volley over the bar leading to a corner, off course Rick and his teammates flood the box, even at that from the resulting corner, a Boyd striker rose highest, his header clipping the top of the woodwork. The stadium held its breath, a collective gasp that seemed to suck the oxygen out of the arena.