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chestnut-colored hair wave at them and Reid pulled her in that direction.
    Maybe it was her imagination, but this man did not look happy to see her at all.
    “Jillian,” said Reid, “I’d like to introduce you to Aaron Wells. Wells, this is Jillian.”
    “Nice to meet you,” Aaron said without any hint of a smile, but Jillian offered her hand nonetheless and he took it.
    “Nice to meet you too,” she said. “Reid just told me outside,” she pointed over her shoulder, “that we would be meeting you.”
    “That’s okay. He didn’t tell me you would be here either.” The two men exchanged a look.
    “As I was headed out, the boss offered me an extra ticket. So I thought I would invite Jillian.”
    “Did you, now?” Aaron asked.
    “Um, I’m going to go grab a beer,” Jillian interrupted. “Can I get you anything?”
    “I’ll come with you,” said Reid. “Be right back.”
    “I’ll be waiting.” Aaron said, taking a gulp of his own beer.
    “What was that about?” Jillian asked while they waited in line.
    “Sorry. Wells isn’t exactly the warmest person. I had hoped he would be a bit more polite, but obviously I was asking too much.”
    “Is he going to be like this the whole time?” She frowned, envisioning an evening of Aaron’s icy personality.
    “Nah,” said Reid. “I’m sure he’ll warm up. Especially after a few beers.”
    “Can’t wait,” she muttered.
     
    By the time the three of them found their seats at the ball field, Aaron’s demeanor had not improved, despite the several beers he had downed. If Jillian hadn’t been watching him drink them, she would have guessed him stone-cold sober. Or at least stone-cold. Reid was trying his best to pull them into joined conversation, even brought up football, but Aaron just shrugged or grunted his answers.
    The second inning had just started when Reid, who had been sitting between them, left to go to the bathroom. She and Aaron sat in silence watching the game, which was even slower than usual, when Jillian couldn’t take it any longer.
    “Did I do something to you?” she asked, looking right at him. He was leaning forward with an elbow on his knee and chin in his hand.
    “No. Why?” he asked, still staring straight ahead.
    “So you’re just always this rude.”
    He ran his thumb along his square jaw. “Yep.”
    “How did you and Reid ever become friends?”
    Aaron sat up and put an arm over the back of Reid’s empty chair.
    “Oh, I’m not this rude to my friends,” he said, watching the second baseman catch a grounder.
    Jillian’s jaw dropped. “What the hell did I do to piss you off like this?”
    He finally looked at her. “Listen, it’s nothing personal. I just know that whatever is going on between you and Reid will never work. So I don’t see any point in trying to get chummy with you. You seem like a nice girl, in all honesty. But if you haven’t noticed yet that Reid’s job isn’t exactly conducive to dating, you will soon enough.”
    “Don’t you think you should let me and perhaps Reid be the judge of that?”
    Aaron shrugged.
    “I need a beer,” she said, standing up. Jillian could not bear to be around this man a second longer.
    Reid passed her in the aisle.
    “Where you going?” he asked.
    “I need a beer,” she said a little louder this time and stomped down the stairs to the nearest concession stand and got in line. God, she was tired of lines.
    Someone stepped in behind her and she didn’t think anything of it, until she heard the whisper in her ear.
    “Do you miss me yet?”
    She spun around, hoping it was her imagination.
    “Cameron,” she seethed, coming face to face with her ex-boyfriend.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER FIVE
     
     
    Reid sat back down in his seat, unable to shake the feeling Jillian was upset. Did he do or say something wrong? He glanced over at Wells, who happened to be looking very smug.
    “What did you do?” Reid asked.
    “What are you talking