Summer Affair: A Hilarious and Tender Friends to Lovers Romantic Comedy (The Eastons) by Marina Adair

Author:Marina Adair [Adair, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Adair Group
Published: 2022-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

Ten minutes later, Clay was hobbling back to his dad’s office like some old man. Hell, these days he felt like an old man. His knee should have been nearly healed by now and he should have been able to go back to training with his team. Actually, that was bullshit. While he might be a little sore from being on it all night, he’d come up with a lot of reasons to procrastinate going back to Seattle.

His physical therapist hadn’t quite cleared him for practice, but she did say he could get the same treatment in Seattle from the team’s physical therapist and train with his teammates, which was an important part of the game. Unity. He kept telling himself he hadn’t been cleared for full action for another few weeks, plus, he had that date with Jillian coming up and his commitment to Sammy and the Bullfrogs. He wasn’t about to let them down.

“Aren’t you supposed to be running my bar?” Owen said when Clay entered the office.

“Aren’t you supposed to be at home getting some sleep? I mean, wasn’t that the whole point of me covering for you tonight?”

“No,” Owen said without looking up from his laptop. “The point was to watch you go down in flames.”

“Sorry to disappoint. The bar is running as smoothly as my offense.” Clay plopped down on the leather couch and suppressed the need to groan. The last thing he wanted was Owen to gloat more.

The faint hint of cherry tobacco and an assortment of beer steins reminded him of his dad. Unlike the bar, which had received a complete overhaul a few years back, Owen had left their old man’s office the same. Even down to the collection of signed photos from celebrities who visited the bar.

Owen finally looked up and that’s when Clay noticed just how spent his brother appeared. Dark circles, stress lines, and an expression of sheer exhaustion.

“You look like shit.”

Owen snapped his laptop closed. “Do you know how much paperwork it takes to run this place?”

His brother was looking for a fight. The defensive body language, the narrowing of the eyes, he was headed to that same pissed-off place he went every time one of their brothers asked about the bar. Only Clay wasn’t like his brothers. While he welcomed a good spar on the field, in his personal life he tended to listen rather than react. So he settled in and rested his arms across the back of the couch. “Why don’t you tell me?”

Owen blinked in surprise. “You aren’t going to lecture me on hiring a new manager?”

“Not unless I need to.”

Owen sat back. “Employees, payroll, deliveries, deposits, and that’s all before opening.” He ran a hand down his face, which had at least three days’ worth of scruff.

“Is the bar doing well?” The look on Owen’s face said this was the first time someone had bothered to ask, and that made Clay angry—at himself.

When their dad passed and Owen stepped up to run the bar, Clay never inquired if that’s what Owen wanted to do with his life.

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