It struck Aiden that he had never much liked Jed Donovan. Seemed like something he would have known, and a thing that would not strike suddenly. Aiden had known the man for years, but only at the periphery of his life. He had never had any call to form much of an opinion. Jed was simply there. And Jed was what Jed had always been. But as the grind of Jed’s tactlessness and overall unlikability settled in on Aiden, it came as no real surprise.
