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“So, I’m moving in tomorrow.”
“Good.”
She laughed. “I’m kidding.”
He looked over his shoulder. “I’m not.”
Her heart skipped and then slammed against her breast bone. “Logan, we just got back together.”
“You’re safer here.”
Well, it was nice to know he wasn’t completely perfect. “That is not a reason to move in. Besides, I actually live over my store. Talk about good commute.”
“You can do most of your research here. Whatever I don’t have, give me a list and I’ll acquire it.”
“Such a romantic.”
He sighed and scraped scrambled eggs onto a plate for each of them. “I’m being sensible.”
She didn’t want sensible. She wanted to have some time to figure things out. She’d never actually lived with a man, and didn’t want her first time to be under dire circumstances. And call her silly, but she actually wanted him to want her there, not just because it was a convenient way to watch over her.
“I like my space.”
He set the plate in front of her on the breakfast bar. “I’d be more comfortable if you stayed with me.”
“I’m not stopping my life for this woman. It’s been what? A year?”
He cleared his throat. “Almost two.”
She slumped onto the bar stool. “And for the last six months I’ve been working and traveling and she hasn’t come at me once.”
“Things are a little different now.” He nodded to her plate and snagged a piece of bacon and held it in front of her. “Eat.”
She snapped her teeth around the strip and munched. And because it tasted amazing, she reached for three more.
He settled beside her. “She left you alone because we weren’t together.”
“So, what? We’re going to hide?”
“No.”
His gruff voice didn’t reassure her. If Logan had his way, he’d have her holed up at the cabin twenty-four-seven. She knew this, and she was prepared for it. Didn’t mean she was going to let him get away with it. They finished their breakfast quietly, just the scrape of silverware over stoneware.
When she took the dishes to the sink, she turned to find Logan with his head down and his fingers kneading the back of his neck. She circled the island to stand behind him and still his fingers.
“I’m going to be fine.” He dragged her hand to his mouth to kiss it and she wrapped herself around him. “It’s not festival time. And everyone in this town is so damn nosy, there’s no way we wouldn’t know if she came to town.”
“Doesn’t necessarily mean it will be her. She doesn’t get her hands dirty.”
She tucked her chin into the dense muscles of his shoulder and neck. “So we take the offensive. Don’t let her see that she has any power over us. We work, we have friends over, we don’t stop living.”
“You’re right.”
“Of course I am.”
“So modest.”
“I’m good for you. Now, I’m going to clean up and you’re going to bring me to work. Tonight, I’ll drive my car over.”
