“It doesn’t really surprise me,” Lina said. “There’s something untamed about you.”

“Untamed?” He looked amused.

“That’s probably not the right word, but when I met you, I knew you didn’t fit into a mold. You were different.”

He looked down into his drink for a moment and then was lifting his gaze back to hers. “Funny, I thought the same thing about you.”

14

Lina knew by the smile on Logan’s face as he slipped into the car the tryout had gone well. “So?”

“It was good! I need to call Dad.”

She listened as he excitedly told Phil how well he thought he had done. “I was brought on to the top field halfway through the tryout, and I stayed there the rest of the time. I scored six times…No, I played middie mostly…Yeah, I scored a lot, and I wasn’t playing forward. Oh, and I met a few guys who will be going to Gilman in the fall. One was that kid we saw at the tournament last month…The one with the blond hair that scored half his team’s goals! No one could stop him. He’s awesome, and he’s totally cool. We’re going to get together before school starts. His name is Brian Drayton.”

“You saw him, didn’t you?” Phil asked later that evening after joining Lina on the back deck.

“Yes.” She’d expected the question earlier, but when they’d returned home from the tryout, Logan had been so excited he’d spent most of the evening monopolizing Phil’s time, not even letting Megan get in a word as he recounted every detail of the tryout.

“Did you talk to him?”

“Yes.”

“How long?”

“Hmm?”

“Lina? What are you feeling so guilty about?”

“I’m not,” she lied. She’d been feeling guilty all evening.

“Then why won’t you look at me? And why have you been avoiding me all evening?”

She turned her head and met his eyes. “He’s Katie’s doctor. I’m not going to ignore him.”

“Not for much longer, he’s not.”

“What is that supposed to mean? Because I happen to run into him at a lacrosse field, he’s not allowed to be Katie’s doctor? That’s ridiculous.”

“Do you think it’s acceptable for Katie to tell him personal details of our life and then have us see him at lacrosse games and school functions?”

Her heart dropped. She hadn’t even considered the conflict. “But he’s gotten her to open up. Have you seen them interact? She genuinely likes him. That doesn’t just happen.”

“We don’t have a choice. And when he finds out our sons will be going to the same school, he’ll be saying the same thing.”

The ringing of Phil’s cell phone awoke Lina just after 1:00 a.m., and her thoughts immediately went to Kim. “Phil?” She shook his arm. “That’s your cell phone.”

“It’s Shiloh,” he said as he squinted at the display. “Shi? Calm down…I can’t understand you…Shi, you need to calm down.”