Dogwood Hill (A Chesapeake Shores Novel - Book 12) by Dogwood Hill
Author:Dogwood Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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The basketball game didn’t work as an effective stress reducer. Aidan was as edgy and off-kilter after the game as he had been before they’d played. Oh, he’d worked up a good sweat and had even scored a few baskets, but his concentration had been shot. He was hoping no one had noticed, but these were O’Brien men. They might not be sensitive, but they were intuitive, especially when it was obvious that some distraction had kept his head out of a game he’d been so anxious to play.
Though he’d probably gotten closer to Connor than any of the other men, it was Kevin who’d apparently been designated to get to the bottom of whatever was on his mind. Aidan supposed he ought to be grateful Will hadn’t been chosen for the assignment. He had a hunch a good shrink could peel back his defenses in less time than it took to say Liz March.
As Aidan sipped from a bottle of lukewarm water, he watched as the other men dispersed. Even their parting catcalls were muted. Kevin stayed dutifully behind.
Aidan studied him warily. He didn’t envy the guy. This was the second time he’d been put in an awkward position. The last time it had been Thomas who’d put him there with questions about Aidan’s interest in the bay preservation project.
Seizing the initiative with the vague hope of getting the cross-examination over with, Aidan looked Kevin in the eye. “Something on your mind?”
Kevin was clearly startled by the question. “Actually I was wondering, we all were,” he began uncomfortably, “if there was something you wanted to get off your chest. Maybe problems with Liz?”
“No problems,” Aidan declared flatly, hoping to put an end to that line of speculation.
Kevin looked perplexed by his adamant response. “The word is that you’re not seeing each other anymore.”
“We were never seeing each other in the first place,” Aidan told him, avoiding any mention of the kiss that might have made a liar of him.
“Not the way I heard it,” Kevin said. “And the grapevine in this town might be annoying, but it’s usually as accurate as it is fast.”
“Not this time,” Aidan insisted. “Liz and I are friends. Period. Mutual agreement.”
“A mutual agreement doesn’t usually drive a man onto a basketball court to get his tail whipped,” Kevin noted. “Now a one-sided agreement, that’s something else entirely.”
Aidan studied him incredulously. He’d spent enough years in a locker room to know there were few boundaries among guys, but he’d never before had his love life dissected with quite this much fascination or seemingly genuine concern. There’d been a few bawdy remarks when he’d gone out with a model a couple of times, more when he’d been linked to an actress, but that was it. He didn’t know how to handle the real worry that seemed responsible for Kevin’s probing. His solution was to try, yet again, to deflect it.
“What is it with the men around here, or at least the O’Brien men?” Aidan asked, trying to sound curious, rather than impatient.
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