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“Hey,” he said softly. The light turned green and the car behind us beeped impatiently. “I love you.”
“Good, I’m glad we can agree on something.”
“Thank God, ‘cause we really don’t agree on much when you think about it.”
“I know. The fact that you were willing to choose Corona over Budweiser tonight was almost a deal breaker.”
“The fact that you wanted to watch Never Been Kissed while the Sox were playing was almost a deal breaker.”
I laughed and shook my head, leaning over to kiss him and not even caring that we were holding up traffic.
Chapter 16
When my brother announced that he was going to buy a house boat the whole family thought he was insane, myself included. But Logan, who had a tendency to do what he wanted when he wanted, stuck to his decision and bought a house in Driftwood Cove, the only floating home community on the South Shore.
Driftwood Cove had a rather large community with floating homes stretching across rows and rows of docks that stretched towards the lighthouse. It was cozy and cute and very unlike Logan, who bought a tricked out home with beautiful hardwood floors and a galley kitchen that I knew for a fact he barely used. Logan was the kind of guy who burned pasta and called it a secret recipe.
He was opening the door before I even had the chance to knock. “You here to chew me out for what happened the other day?”
I shook my head and stepped forward, wrapping him in a hug. “Can we talk?”
Logan threw an arm around my shoulders and guided me into the house. “Sure thing, kid.”
It still amazed me how much the interior of the house didn’t look like a house boat at all. The main area was spacious with a large leather couch against one wall and a flat screen mounted against the other. There was no clutter and nothing hanging on the gray painted walls. If I was being honest I had a feeling Lo got pretty lonely, though he’d never admit it.
We sat down on the couch and Logan leaned his head back. His hair was a mess and he had dark circles under his eyes.
“Why do you look like you haven’t slept in a week? Molly still have you wrapped around her finger?”
He smiled. “Very funny. No, I’ve been seeing Sarah Hart.”
I gave him a sideways look and waited for him to elaborate. When he didn’t I cocked my head to the side. “Sarah Hart, as in, Molly Hart’s little sister?”
He responded with a sheepish look.
“Logan!”
“What? You’re not one to talk considering you’re so hard up you’re sleeping with Fitz again.”
I narrowed my eyes and tried to choose my words carefully. “I’m not a little kid anymore, Lo. I love the fact that I have such amazing, protective brothers. But at some point you need to take a step back and understand that I can make my own decisions and handle the consequences.”
Logan’s frustration was evident as he shook his head. “Listen, Abby, I’d never tell you what to do, but I don’t want to see you get hurt again. Do you remember how bad he hurt you?”
I ignored his question and responded with “I remember Robbie had to hide your keys so you wouldn’t go across town and kill him.”
“Yeah, I walked two miles before Robbie convinced me to go to The Pelican. Alex didn’t make me pay for a single drink that night.”
I thought back to the night Knox and I broke up. It was an ugly memory yet it frequented my mind more often than not. Memories of asking him to come to New York and him saying no, that there was nothing out there for him. I’d accused him of indirectly saying that I didn’t matter but that it shouldn’t matter where we were as long as we were together. I threw a glass coke bottle at his bedroom door and said I was leaving whether he went with me or not. Technically, at that point I had to go anyway because I’d already accepted the internship with Meryl Bellworth and her wedding planning company.
I remembered the hurt look on his face and him saying, “If you walk out that door we’re done.”
It was over. Just like that a five year relationship was over. We were both set in our ways and weren’t willing to compromise. But looking back on it now made me realize we never could have made it work back then. We were young and dumb and fought over stupid shit. The two of us alone in a big city would have been disastrous.
“We were kids,” I said now as I gave Lo a pleading look. “We aren’t the people we were then. Just give him a chance.”
“When you and Knox first got together-”
“I’m trying to leave the past in the past.”
