Harlequin Special Edition June 2020--Box Set 2 of 2 by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

“How is married life?” Daniel stood in the open doorway of Aidan’s office, startling him out of his thoughts.

“Considering that we have had one week of normalcy under our belts, now that Chloe and the family know, so far so good.”

“Good thing you’re an architect,” Daniel said. “Because you make a terrible actor.”

Aidan’s knee-jerk reaction was to pretend like he didn’t know what his brother was talking about, but why? One thing he had learned with Kate was you didn’t solve problems by pretending life was perfect. Kate had taught him that you had to come at the situation head-on.

“The other day you said I had a good poker face.”

“That was when you were keeping the marriage a secret. You were good at that. But I can tell that something’s bothering you.”

Aidan sighed.

“Okay, marriage is hard.” He shrugged. “We are adjusting. Or, at least, we are trying to and I’m trying to keep a positive outlook. You know, set a good example for everyone.”

Aidan pushed back from his desk and placed his hands behind his neck and shrugged.

“Chloe is happy. So that’s good. She loves Kate. She loves finally having a mother and Kate is a great mom to her. She’s good with Chloe. We haven’t told her about the baby yet. We wanted to break the news to her in digestible bites. You know, let her get used to us being a family first. Let her feel safe, and then we’ll tell her our family is going to grow some more. That she’s going to have a sibling.”

Daniel lowered himself onto the chair across from Aidan’s desk.

“That’s good,” Daniel said. “So what’s the problem?”

“Kate’s…quiet. You know, distant. I don’t know. I guess we’re still adjusting to living together. I’m not sure how I thought life would be, but I thought it would be different than this. I don’t know whether to give her space or if I should try harder.”

“Marriage, even under the best circumstances, can be difficult. Or maybe I shouldn’t say difficult. Difficult has a bad connotation. It can be challenging. Challenging puts a better spin on it.”

“But should you have to spin something like marriage?” Aidan asked. “Shouldn’t she and I just be happy to be together? We’re newlyweds.”

“Are you saying you’re not happy?”

“No.”

He had answered too fast, he knew it, which placed his answer squarely in the “doth protest too much” territory.

“I don’t know,” he amended. “I don’t know that we would have gotten married had the circumstances been different.”

“I thought you said you didn’t get married because of the baby.”

“We didn’t.”

“But you just said you would not have married her if she wasn’t pregnant?”

“I didn’t say anything about marrying her because she was pregnant.”

“Okay, I’m confused,” Daniel said. “Did you and Kate plan this Vegas elopement, or did you just get caught up in the moment?”

Aidan clasped his hands together tightly on top of his desk. Then he loosened them and steepled his fingers, tapping them together as he thought of how to best answer his brother’s question.

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