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Just more Bisset BS. Also, if you want my advice, never fall in love with a guy.
You’re not okay. Give me ten minutes or so and I’ll meet you. Where are you?
Pulling into the hotel parking lot. Meet in the makeup room. There’s nothing you can say to fix this.
That’s not what I wanted for you today.
Me neither but that’s where I am.
“You ever coming out, Ace?” Logan yelled through the closed door.
She rinsed, spit out the toothpaste, and went to open the door. He stood there totally naked and she just took a moment to appreciate how good he looked. He smiled at her and it felt genuine.
This was good. They were good. Everything was going to be okay, she thought.
“I have to run,” she said. “Things are going to be busy today. But I’ll see you at the wedding and then at the reception.”
“Uh, I’m not going. I really don’t want to be there.”
Surprised she wrinkled her brow. “It’s Adler’s day and she needs her family. You should go and socialize with everyone. It will make you feel better.”
“Thanks, Quinn,” Logan said sarcastically. “But I don’t need your advice. I invited you up last night to screw not to be my shrink.”
Quinn’s face went white and then he saw her get pissed. He knew he was being an asshole. He shouldn’t have said that to her but he wasn’t going to just head down to the wedding like nothing had happened. Last night had been an oasis of calm in the middle of the craziness his life had become. But that was it. Nothing had been resolved and he’d slept for a few hours with Quinn in his arms, but most of the night his mind had been busy running through all the scenarios that would play out today.
He’d been cruel to his parents, he’d set in motion a business deal to ruin Nick’s honeymoon, and his cousin probably would be happy if she didn’t see him on her special day. Right now, he felt like the lowest of the low and he knew he deserved to feel that way.
Some of it, he placed on his mom’s shoulders but since he’d stabbed her in the heart with his words last night, he knew that the blame had to come back to him. And the last thing he wanted was to wake up feeling like he did for Quinn.
He wasn’t in any shape to be in a relationship with her, but no matter how he looked at it, they weren’t just hooking up at the wedding. It felt like more. And unless he missed his guess, she felt it too. He wondered if he shouldn’t have played Stevie Ray Vaughan last night. Maybe bringing up the memories like that was why he’d woken up this morning feeling like...well, feeling. Just all the emotions. And Logan hated that. He was a man who prided himself on keeping his life together.
And emotional men made mistakes.
His dad was a prime example of that. A kid he didn’t know about...hell, twins he hadn’t known about.
He scrubbed his hand over his face. “What, no snappy comeback?”
“I’m waiting for an apology,” she said. “That was uncalled for and we both know it.”
“Keep waiting, Ace,” he said.
She blinked and her jaw got tight. She took a deep breath through her nose and he knew that this time there’d be no getting back together with her. This time when Quinn walked out of his life, she wasn’t coming back.
He’d had his second chance and once again he was going to let her go. It was the smart thing to do and God, please let him still be smart. He didn’t know what he’d do if he lost that edge.
“Damn it, Logan. Every time I think you’re anything more than a cold-blooded shark, you remind me that I’m wrong,” she said.
“I never said this was anything more than you and me and the summer heat.”
She shook her head. “The summer heat? Are you freaking kidding me?”
She turned on her heel and he watched her go, forced his eyes off her ass as she moved around his suite collecting her clothes and putting back on the dress she’d worn last night.
It was still crisp and pretty in the light of day. Her hair was tousled but she still looked good. And angry. Really angry.
“You cheated last night, so you think you won. You didn’t,” she said.
“Fine,” he said. He didn’t really want to talk about that anymore. He wanted her out of his room and out of his life so he could continue being himself. Stop trying to be the kind of man that Quinn would want by her side. Because he knew now that was what he’d been doing. Trying so hard to pretend that he could be a better man when he wasn’t. He was just Logan Bisset.
