Icebreaker by Deirdre Martin

Author:Deirdre Martin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Women lawyers, Contemporary, Legal, General, Romance, Hockey players, Fiction
ISBN: 9780425239797
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2011-02-01T20:04:55.829665+00:00

17

“Christ, I needed this.”

Adam chugged down the Heineken Anthony handed him. The Blades had lost three games in a row. Saari and the rest of the young guys were punctual to practice, but Saari projected an air of boredom, even though he was practicing up to par. Adam decided he’d let it go for now. If he rode Saari continually, there could be a backlash. He wanted the players to respect him, not think he was a dick.

He’d been seeing Sinead for a month now. They were pretty much keeping it quiet, which wasn’t hard to do, since finding time to see each other wasn’t easy. Sinead was still fretting a bit about their seeing each other being unethical, but Adam had discovered the way to silence her was with a kiss.

“What’s on your mind, bro?” asked Anthony, cracking open his brew.

“We seem to be on a losing streak.”

“It’ll pass, though, right?”

“It better.”

“How’s it going with Sinead?”

Adam considered the question. “Pretty well, I think. It’s hard to tell sometimes. We don’t see each other as much as I thought we might.”

“You give her the quiz yet?”

“What quiz?”

“Madonn’, do you even listen to me when I talk?”

“You talk a lot.”

“Asshole. No, listen. I developed this personality quiz. It’s my belief you can tell a lot about a person by determining which of the Three Stooges they’re most like.”

“You’re making this up, right?”

“Dead serious. For example: You and I are both Moes. We’re dominant personalities. Vivi is mixed: part Moe, part Curly. I would guess, since Sinead is a high-powered attorney, that she’s primarily Moe.”

Adam peered at Anthony in disbelief. “Your wife consented to take this quiz?”

“Well, no, because I was pretty much able to figure out which Stooge she was on my own.”

“Trust me: Sinead would ditch me if I asked her to take this quiz.”

“Couples are supposed to share each other’s interests, you know,” Anthony pointed out.

“Sinead and I have a deal: I don’t force her to endure the Stooges, and she doesn’t force me to listen to jazz.”

“How’s the case going?”

“We try not to talk about it when we’re on ‘our’ time.”

Anthony nodded approvingly. “Makes sense.”

Adam yawned. “I need a break. I really do. I’m thirty-five years old, Anthony. That’s about ninety in hockey years. Some nights I come home from playing and I can’t even move, I’m so crippled.” He took a sip of beer. “I’m going to talk to Sinead about us finding some time to spend a whole weekend together.”

“Sounds like a plan. Now, what do you want to watch: season one or season two?”

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