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“Wait,” she blurted out, remembering something Natalie had said. “Do you remember when you last wore your T-shirt from the MIT Business and Technology conference that you and Vic attended together?”
“What?” Logan squinted at her as if she had lost her mind.
“Victor found that T-shirt in Darla’s room. Did you give it to someone?”
“How should I know? It was seven years ago.” His tone was so cold and angry that she backed off.
Logan opened the door and stepped out, closing it behind him.
And Jinx fell to her knees and cried.
The few people working in his Bennett-Meyers offices on a Fourth of July holiday Saturday teased Logan about not being able to stay away. But the truth was, he’d had to force himself to come into the office so Jinx would get how serious he was about ending it all.
And now he had force himself to go home.
When he returned to his penthouse later that afternoon, Jinx was gone. He’d secretly hoped she might defy him and stay, but no, the pain he’d caused her had been clear on her beautiful face.
He hated himself for doing that to her, but it could not be helped. Logan refused to be someone who turned Jinx against her family.
Taking out his phone, he texted his driver and asked how it went with the woman he’d asked him to drive to the North Fork this morning.
Chuck replied, saying he had just gotten back to the city and that he had dropped off the passenger in front of her house.
Good. Logan was worried Jinx might have refused the ride. The fact that she accepted it meant she wasn’t hating on him, but was just upset.
He kept telling himself they would both get past this and forget about their ideas of being together—ideas he knew were in her mind as well as his.
But he didn’t believe for a minute that either of them could.
Logan set his laptop on a coffee table, thinking he might finish up some work.
But why bother? He had more money than he would ever need and he had all the time in the world to work at his business to make more.
And that was it. That was his life.
Logan could not really say he’d been happy before he ran into Jinx again, but he’d been satisfied with his routine and enjoying his success. He was proud that he’d taken back the business that was rightfully his. How dare his father try to cheat him out of the legacy he’d insisted Logan would inherit, drumming it into his head with all those beatings he administered when he was a kid over carrying on the Bennett name. And the times his mother tried to stop him he’d turned on her too.
He remembered the time when he was seven years old and he ran to his mother after one of his father’s physical “lectures” and suggested they run away from him. She said he was too young to understand, but she did not want him to be alone in the world. Much later he realized she must have known she was dying.
And Logan ended up alone anyway.
Victor’s family—and Jinx—had been a respite from that loneliness. Until he was accused and betrayed again.
And alone again.
Sam Meyers had given him a sense of belonging. He had believed in him, but he was gone now. Sure, he had Deena’s friendship, but she was wrapped up in her husband and children, as she should be. He was extraneous in their world.
Being alone and angry was what helped drive him to work nonstop. To achieve a billionaire status that rendered him superior.
And his male ego got off on the fact that he had loads of women to choose from for entertainment. And, sure, he liked having enough wealth to help some good causes.
But that was it.
That was his life.
His lonely extraneous empty life.
Before seeing Jinx again, the part of him that had once wanted more, wanted something to fill his heart, had been closed off, shut down.
