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Logan shook his head. “It will matter to Nick. And I highly doubt that a man who was raised as Tad Williams’s son is going to suddenly want to merge with Bisset Industries, if that’s what you were thinking.”
“I was. Actually, I have reached out to Nick and his family to see if I can open some kind of negotiation between our families,” Dare said. “I’ve sat on some highly volatile committees in the senate, so I figured I was probably the only one who might be able to broker something between us.”
“I doubt that anything you encountered in Washington will be as bad as this. I mean Dad and Tad hate each other. It’s not just me who wants to beat the other guy. Dad has been trying to ruin Tad since he opened his business,” Logan said.
“I wonder why,” Dare said. “I could see if he’d realized that Tad’s wife was his former lover, but I’m pretty sure Dad didn’t know. So it has to be something else. Has he ever mentioned it to you?”
“No. I brought it up one time and he told me it was none of my business, so I dropped it,” Logan said. He’d never seen his father react that way until the moment he’d seen Cora Williams in the room two days ago.
“I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens,” Dare said. “Last night was totally crazy. Zac was funny. I’m glad he’s back. I mean I know he’s made a mess of things with Iris, but to be honest, I don’t believe for a second the only reason he’s with her is because she offered to invest in his yacht team.”
“Me neither. That boy is in love. He’ll figure it out. I’ve never seen him like this with a woman,” Logan said. “Do you think it’s just wedding vibes?”
“What do you mean?”
“That he thinks he’s in love? That it’s real?” Logan asked.
“I don’t know,” Dare said. “Before Mari fell in love with Inigo, I would have said that we Bissets weren’t really meant for romantic relationships. We’re better at friendships and just socializing. Making connections for business or politics. But now Zac...it seems genuine to me.”
“Me too,” Logan said, shaking his head. Quinn had been right when she’d said he liked to compete. And he knew from watching Zac this morning that love didn’t leave room for winners. He doubted he’d ever be comfortable with that.
His phone vibrated in his pocket and Dare’s beeped. “Family text.”
“Another meeting,” Logan said. “Honestly, I am done with these. I miss the days when the biggest scandal was Mari partying too hard and wearing skimpy clothing.”
“I know she doesn’t. She’s loving that, after all the meetings to deal with the Mari problem, it’s now about the Auggie problem. I never would have thought that Dad would cause this kind of scandal,” Dare said. “After all the shit he gave us growing up, there is a part of me that is relishing it.”
“Yeah. I’m torn. Part of me is glad he’s human and can screw up like the rest of us, but I’ve always been the most like him, D. What if that’s my future?”
Dare stopped him. “The fact that you’re worrying about it tells me it won’t be.”
“I hope you’re right.”
Iris and Adler had left and Quinn had a few minutes to herself. She thought about texting Logan but in the end decided not to. Today at the golf club she’d almost dropped her guard. Almost let him back into her life. When he’d walked away, she’d been reminded that almost was all she could safely allow.
Instead she went back to her rental house and downloaded the footage she’d shot for the personal video for Adler and Nick. She poured herself a Fiji water and just stared at the video screen. She’d been filming weddings for the last four years and as she’d gotten closer to thirty, she’d started thinking about marriage. Maybe it was time to look for a guy and settle down.
Iris had been...well, making mistakes as she tried to find a man to be her life partner. Quinn didn’t need a man to move her career forward. Not that Iris really did, either, but Quinn had noticed that her friend’s peers had all moved on to marriage or motherhood. Iris had said she was too old to be single-girl-in-the-city and Quinn felt that sometimes. Especially when her younger crew members were going out and she just wanted to go home, change into her comfy clothes and binge watch something on Netflix...honestly, she usually choseGilmore Girlsorthe latest rom com.
Her mom warned her that she was getting too settled in her eccentricities. Somehow her mother thought if she didn’t find someone who got her weird side then she was going to be alone forever. That, to be honest, didn’t sound all that bad, given how Juliette Bisset was dealing with the fallout of her husband’s affair thirty-five years ago.
But at the same time, it would be nice to have someone to curl up with on cold nights and to talk about the latest gossip, and to feel just comfortable that they had each other. She shook her head.
Weddings did this. She knew it. She’d seen so many couples hook up at the destination weddings she’d filmed. Couples—like herself and Logan—who made no sense back home. Back in real life.
She needed to shake herself out of this mindset.
She knew part of the blame belonged squarely on Logan’s broad shoulders. If he had gotten a little chubbier since college, if he’d somehow lost his charm or maybe become some kind of dull businessman, she could have resisted him.
Yeah, that was what she needed, she thought. He was just still...too sexy. Too attractive, and not just physically. And part of it was the challenge.
Her phone buzzed and she grabbed it, glancing down to see it was another news push from the wire. She scanned it and almost dropped her phone.
There was more to the story...
A nurse from a rural hospital had released a statement saying that Nick wasn’t the only child born that day to Cora Williams, aka Bonnie Smith. Nick had a twin and the twin had been swapped just after birth with Juliette Bisset’s stillborn baby boy.
Holy hell.
