Life was calmer that way.
That didn’t mean she couldn’t commit or stick to something. It just meant she was trying to find her place.
But was California with Rowan it?
18
MET MY WIFE
“When do I get to meet this woman of yours?” Logan asked him the next day.
Rowan and Logan had been best friends since college. When his business was up and running, he needed someone he trusted to run the operations end of it. Who understood his vision and wanted to see it grow.
It’d been a no-brainer to call and offer Logan the job at Sixth Surf. The guy who introduced him to the board one day after exams.
“She’s coming over this afternoon,” he said. “She’s running errands and getting a feel for the area.”
“How does it feel living with someone?” Logan asked. “You never have before.”
“It’s fine,” he said. “We were together nonstop in Colorado. No issues there.”
Logan laughed. “The honeymoon phase. Trapped in the mountains in that gorgeous house and not much to do other than have sex.”
“Dude,” he said. “Three days we were trapped and not even that.” Though it was a lie. It would have been dangerous to leave. “Then we were out and about doing things.”
“You’re really serious about her, aren’t you?”
“I wouldn’t have asked her to move in with me if I wasn’t,” he said. He got up and closed his office door. “I think I met my wife.”
Logan’s jaw dropped. “Get out.”
“I’m telling you. I’ve never felt this before.”
Not from the moment he saw her plight in the airport, stepped in to help, and then convinced her to join him in the cabin.
For the past few weeks he’d thought to himself what he might have done if she’d said no. That she didn’t want to go with him.
He wasn’t willing to let her go and might have just stayed right at the airport by her side.
“You’ve dated before. Been in relationships too.”
“Yeah,” he said. “But not like this. I can’t explain it.”
“Did you tell her about Ava?” Logan asked.
“No,” he said, frowning. “Why would I? It’s not like we’ve talked about all the people we’ve dated and very few know about me and Ava. You know that.”
Logan rolled his eyes. “Because this isn’t just an ex but a business partner.”
He sighed. “She’s not a business partner. We sponsor her on the tour and have a line of boards with her name on them.”
Ava got a percentage of the sales, but that didn’t make her a partner.
“You work with her still,” Logan said. “Don’t nitpick.”
“It’s still not a big deal.”
“It will be if you’re not honest. But we know, you can’t stand controversy.”
