Chapter 65

AIDEN

It was hard to get my mind off what had just happened with my mother as it had suddenly changed the flow of my entire day. I tried to tell myself it was all her personal life and I didn't have a right to say anything about it.

But then, I was really scared in no small way as I realized just how weird things could get if she happened to have been cheating on Ellie's father with someone else.

Worst of all, the marriage wouldn't follow through and I was going to lose contact with Ellie. I feared that more than anything, and it had me deep in my thoughts and trying to catch my breath in the sea of my worries.

“Aiden!”

I was almost fidgeting when I heard one of my teammates calling out to me. In the heat of my worries, I suddenly froze on the court and was completely motionless from it all.

There were just a lot of things going wrong at the moment, as I was watching the opponents scoring us at will.

“What the fuck’s going on?” They were livid that I wasn't bringing my A-game to