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“You’d do that for me? Give up your job? You have tenure at Berkley.”
“I’d go to the end of the world for you.”
My heart swells with so much love I’m not sure it can be contained in my ribcage anymore. I brush a strand of hair away from his forehead. “You don’t have to. Nothing is keeping me in LA; I’ll move to The Bay Area.”
“But your sister is there, your best friend. In San Francisco, you won’t be as close to your family.”
“You’re going to be my family, and I’ve been in a long-distance relationship with everyone else in my life since I started traveling for my job. I know it works. What I can’t bear is to be away from you. I hate that I have to leave for Cambodia in a week, and I’m not sure I want to keep that lifestyle in the future.”
His thumb traces slow circles on my shoulders. “What are you saying?”
“That I might be in the market for a career change.”
“And what would you do?”
“I taught a short photography course before coming to Thailand. I liked it.”
“Really?” He sounds eager.
“Yes, why?”
Logan’s finger travels leisurely down my arm and up again. “A friend told me there might be an opening at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I didn’t want to pressure you, or make it look like I was asking you to change for me, or giving more importance to my job over yours.”
“Who are you and what have you done with my favorite, anti-feminist grump?”
The scowl promptly appears. “I’ve never been anti-feminist.”
I kiss the frown away. “Should we call you slightly prejudiced then; you weren’t exactly championing me when I joined your expedition.”
His green eyes smolder, and he rolls half on top of me. “Only because I’d wanted to undress you from the moment I set eyes on you, and you were torturing me with those short shorts, scandalous bikinis, and braless black dresses.”
I smirk, pleased with myself. “Oh, so you noticed.”
“I noticed everything about you, from day one, from the small crease you get here in the middle of your forehead when you’re displeased about something, down to the last freckle on your pretty nose.” He presses his mouth to the part in question. When he pulls back up, he’s looking all intense again.
“Uh-oh, your serious face is back.”
“I just want to make sure you’re not making rash decisions. That you’re fine changing jobs.”
“I am. I don’t want to trot each month to a different continent and live out of hotel rooms. “
“I want to cut back on the traveling as well. I’ll ask to teach more hours next year. The lost city was my life’s work. I’m ready to settle. But are you sure you’ll be fine just teaching?”
“I can still accept the odd assignment abroad if I get too restless, but make it the exception and not the norm. And as long as I don’t have to turn into a wedding photographer, yeah, I’ll be okay.”
“Speaking of weddings… where do you want to host ours?”
“Home?”
“No exotic destination wedding?”
“Nah, we’ve had enough exotic for a while.”
He taps my nose. “Most of my invitees will come from abroad. The celebrations need to be a longer-than-usual affair somewhere nice where people would want to visit.”
