AIDEN'S POV

“And so I told him… Man, you're one son of a…” He paused. “Aiden? Are you listening?”

I was jolted mid thoughts back to the present in a poker room surrounded by my friends as one of them with chestnut hair was telling us the same retired story that he hadn't shut up about since we were teens.

“Sorry, zoned out for a moment there.”

He came over and placed a worried hand on my shoulder.

“Are you good? You've been zoned out all night? Yeesh never took you ...