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gray power suit. Her blond hair was in the messy toss of a style he saw on everyone. The just out of bed look that actually took two stylists.
He knew this because he’d seen Kim in action on more than one occasion. She still was miles better than most of the television celebrities he dealt with. And she gave him a relatively fair interview without too much embellishment on the final broadcast.
Logan moved to the side. “Kim Forrester, my fiancée, Isabella Grace.”
Kim’s face only showed a flash of surprise before she turned up the wattage. “I can’t wait to talk to you about how you managed to snag this guy off the most eligible bachelor list. Especially when so many have tried and failed. Even everyone’s favorite hotel heiress.”
Izzy’s smile never faltered. Even with the name drop, she kept her face open and friendly. Her dark hair was down and waved slightly around her face and down her back. Showing every flawless inch of her face and neck. Stunning in a way that Aimee Collen never would be.
“Well, if you want to get started, I’ll tell you all about the story. It’s a real doozy.”
“Let’s just get your makeup touched up. That lip-lock has left you a little smudged.”
“I usually don’t bother wearing lipstick.” Izzy’s cheeks heated and she looked down. “It never stays on long.”
Kim’s eyes sharpened. She snapped her fingers. “Frank, can you get Courtney?”
The large, shaggy haired man dipped his head and lifted a hand to his ear and relayed the message. A redhead came in with a bag over her shoulder. She messed with Izzy’s makeup and penciled in a dramatic line for her lips along with an even darker red than she’d been wearing.
Logan dropped into the chair beside Izzy and crossed his ankle over his knee.
Kim spoke quietly and quickly with her assistant then sat back. “All right. We’ll start with some easy questions to warm up and then we’ll talk about the fire.”
Logan reached over to take one of Izzy’s hands and laced their fingers together. She squeezed him back, trying to pull back, but he wasn’t having any of that. She was getting better about not hiding her hands, but she still did it instinctively far too often for his liking.
“Hi, we’re here with Logan King and his lovely fiancée, Isabella Grace. You two have had a tumultuous relationship from the very start. You met the previous summer at the Summer Festival that you headline every year, correct?”
Right to the meat of things. Kim never disappointed. “That’s right.” Logan slid his easy smile on. “She had me from the first time I saw her in The Barn.”
Isabella rolled her eyes. “At the time The Barn was far from the lovely concert hall it is now. He informed me that he was going to be transforming this ancient barn into a small stage in three days. He was not my favorite person.”
“I can’t imagine that.” Kim’s smile was huge. “But it sounds like sparks flew right from the start—but maybe not all in the romance department.”
“Definitely not.” Izzy’s eyebrow rose and she gave him a sly smile. “But he won me over with his passion for the space. And because the Summer Festival is a charity concert that Logan hosts every year we certainly didn’t have the budget to do what he wanted.”
“She pretty much told me to put my money where my mouth was. How could I resist that?”
Kim’s expressive blue eyes twinkled. “I know I wouldn’t have been able to.” She looked into the camera and gave some backstory about his charity and the unprecedented funds they’d raised. How it blew up the festival into something much bigger and was gaining strength each year.
“But at the end of the concert there was no happily ever after for you two. Some have speculated that an old girlfriend came into the picture. Perhaps Aimee Collen was back in the running for your affections.”
“Aimee hasn’t been on my radar for a few years. The tabloids love to use our past relationship to sell papers.” Logan looked into the camera. “We were over before it began. I was having a rough time with my career at the time and made a lot of poor choices.”
When the twinkle in Kim’s eye turned to fire, Logan knew he probably laid it on too thick. But he wanted to hurt Aimee and this was the only way he knew how.
“So how did you let Isabella get away?” Kim asked.
“I was an idiot.”
Kim turned to Izzy. “Is that right?”
“Him being an idiot?”
Logan’s eyebrow lifted at her long pause.
Izzy laughed. “It was one of those crazy flings, neither one of us thought it would go past the shows. Logan’s schedule is insane and I certainly couldn’t leave Winchester Falls. I own my own business with two of my best friends.” She looked down at her hand in her lap. He saw the quick wash of tears and tightened his hold on her. “My shop, Between the Lines.” She cleared her throat. “But we already had strong feelings for each other and got back together that winter when we met up in New York City.”
“But then tragedy struck this small town in the Adirondack region of New York. We’ll be right back to talk about why Logan King disappeared for almost three months.”
