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go to voicemail. He connected the call.
“What were you thinking?” No greeting, straight to business. That was his mother.
“Hello mother. How was your evening?” He was not in the business of explaining his actions.
“My evening was fine until you sent Rebecca home and disappeared. How are you going to cement this deal if you refuse to spend any time with her?”
“I have the situation with Rebecca under control.” He could count on Darwin to soothe the waves on his behalf. His brother could charm any woman into submission.
“You didn’t network with one board member tonight.” That was not true. Randall Lester was on the foundation’s board of directors. Randall made him think of Ava.
He still wanted the little minx even though she had rejected his invitation. He smiled to himself as the car came to a stop under the covered drive of his remodeled colonial revival style home. The moss-draped oak canopies lining the brick paved streets were a stark contrast to Ava’s middle class neighborhood. The architecture of his home complemented the Queen Anne styled mansions on his cul-de-sac. He’d purchased the house five years earlier. The main house had five bedrooms with four and a half baths spread over thirty five hundred square feet. The detached two-car garage with a second floor apartment sealed the deal for him. The cover drive worked until hurricane season arrived, then having a garage was better than a backyard swimming pool.
Ava may have thwarted him tonight, but not before he saw the temptation to take him up on his offer brightened her coffee colored eyes.
“It’s late, mother. We can have this conversation during brunch tomorrow.” Sundays were reserved for golf with his father and Darwin. It wasn’t unusual for Graham his best friend or Gideon another doctor at the hospital to join them. His mother did not enjoy golfing and would join them for brunch afterwards.
“Logan.” He knew that tone, the pull on the leash. “You are close to obtaining everything you ever wanted. Don’t allow yourself to be distracted. The family is counting on you.”
“Goodnight, mother.” The call connect button dimmed when he killed the engine. Family loyalty, an ever present weight kept him behind the steering wheel. He accepted his responsibility to his family, but he would have Ava.
This time it would be different. He would keep his emotional safeguards in place. No crazy love scenarios, he would stay in control of their interaction. Relationships could be built on mutual attraction and he had that with Ava. Recalling her warm vanilla and honey scent made his body stir with lust. He didn’t care that she wasn’t in a position to advance his career. He didn’t care that she lived on Main Street while he was born on Wall Street. Forget the social boundaries their relationship would most definitely slam into.
Ava was his.
Ava awoke feeling everything, but rested. Her night with Logan infiltrated her dreams. With him, she was a younger version of herself, before her foolish actions with Marcus. Knowing that the woman she had been, still lived inside of her should have been comforting. But it wasn’t. Logan had the uncanny ability to penetrate her defenses. And stupid as it was, she didn’t want to fight his allure. What if she was destined to repeat the same mistakes?
She forced herself to prioritize the days’ “to do list.” With her parents expecting her for dinner, she would go for a run before church. Nothing compared to a five-mile trek through nature to clear the mind. Kicking the bedcovers to the foot of the bed, Ava grabbed the cordless phone from the bedside table before she thought better of it, and pushed speed dial. She should talk with Lina before the morning was in full swing. The phone rang several times before she answered.
“Hey girlie, what took you so long to answer the phone? It must have been a wild night with Jace.”
“That’s one
“What were you thinking?” No greeting, straight to business. That was his mother.
“Hello mother. How was your evening?” He was not in the business of explaining his actions.
“My evening was fine until you sent Rebecca home and disappeared. How are you going to cement this deal if you refuse to spend any time with her?”
“I have the situation with Rebecca under control.” He could count on Darwin to soothe the waves on his behalf. His brother could charm any woman into submission.
“You didn’t network with one board member tonight.” That was not true. Randall Lester was on the foundation’s board of directors. Randall made him think of Ava.
He still wanted the little minx even though she had rejected his invitation. He smiled to himself as the car came to a stop under the covered drive of his remodeled colonial revival style home. The moss-draped oak canopies lining the brick paved streets were a stark contrast to Ava’s middle class neighborhood. The architecture of his home complemented the Queen Anne styled mansions on his cul-de-sac. He’d purchased the house five years earlier. The main house had five bedrooms with four and a half baths spread over thirty five hundred square feet. The detached two-car garage with a second floor apartment sealed the deal for him. The cover drive worked until hurricane season arrived, then having a garage was better than a backyard swimming pool.
Ava may have thwarted him tonight, but not before he saw the temptation to take him up on his offer brightened her coffee colored eyes.
“It’s late, mother. We can have this conversation during brunch tomorrow.” Sundays were reserved for golf with his father and Darwin. It wasn’t unusual for Graham his best friend or Gideon another doctor at the hospital to join them. His mother did not enjoy golfing and would join them for brunch afterwards.
“Logan.” He knew that tone, the pull on the leash. “You are close to obtaining everything you ever wanted. Don’t allow yourself to be distracted. The family is counting on you.”
“Goodnight, mother.” The call connect button dimmed when he killed the engine. Family loyalty, an ever present weight kept him behind the steering wheel. He accepted his responsibility to his family, but he would have Ava.
This time it would be different. He would keep his emotional safeguards in place. No crazy love scenarios, he would stay in control of their interaction. Relationships could be built on mutual attraction and he had that with Ava. Recalling her warm vanilla and honey scent made his body stir with lust. He didn’t care that she wasn’t in a position to advance his career. He didn’t care that she lived on Main Street while he was born on Wall Street. Forget the social boundaries their relationship would most definitely slam into.
Ava was his.
Ava awoke feeling everything, but rested. Her night with Logan infiltrated her dreams. With him, she was a younger version of herself, before her foolish actions with Marcus. Knowing that the woman she had been, still lived inside of her should have been comforting. But it wasn’t. Logan had the uncanny ability to penetrate her defenses. And stupid as it was, she didn’t want to fight his allure. What if she was destined to repeat the same mistakes?
She forced herself to prioritize the days’ “to do list.” With her parents expecting her for dinner, she would go for a run before church. Nothing compared to a five-mile trek through nature to clear the mind. Kicking the bedcovers to the foot of the bed, Ava grabbed the cordless phone from the bedside table before she thought better of it, and pushed speed dial. She should talk with Lina before the morning was in full swing. The phone rang several times before she answered.
“Hey girlie, what took you so long to answer the phone? It must have been a wild night with Jace.”
“That’s one
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