Page 41 of Fighting Happily Ever After

“I know.” Levi looked to the glass sliding doors as a flight announcement was made. Dax would be coming through soon.

“You know?”

Levi smiled and nodded before turning to look at him. “Of course I know. We all know. And I stand by what I said—it’s pretty special.”

“Special that I wanted to get close to Faith?”

Levi nodded.

“Is it special that I fucked it all up?”

“You didn’t.”

“You know I did.”

“No.” Levi crossed his arms. “You didn’t. Sure, it’s not all going to plan right now, but that doesn’t mean you fucked it up.”

“I love her.” The moment the words slipped past his lips, Logan knew it was true. He’d lusted after Faith for years, enjoyed messing with her, and making her crazy, butlove? That was new. And it was true. “I do,” he said with conviction. “I am completely in love with her. I think I always have been. It’s not just a bet for me, Levi. It never was.”

The arrival doors opened and closed, a few passengers slipping through, but Levi wasn’t paying attention. He was looking directly at Logan as if he’d completely lost his mind. “I know, Logan,” he said slowly. “I’ve always known. You’ve been desperately in love with Faith Turner almost as long as I’ve been in love with her sister. It just took you a lifetime to figure it out for yourself.”

There was so much he wanted to say.Years? A lifetime?Logan struggled to get the words out, before finally opening his mouth to tell his cousin how wrong he was. But before he could say anything, Levi punched him in the arm.

“Holy shit. There he is.”

He stepped forward toward a man wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and black leather jacket. He had dark sunglasses on despite the fact that he was inside. If he was supposed to be trying to keep a low profile, it definitely wasn’t working. Not that anything about the man suggested that he was.

Logan swallowed back the words he’d been about to say to his cousin as he watched Levi approach Dax. There was no point in finishing the conversation anyway, because even though he’d been about to protest and declare that Levi was an idiot and didn’t know what he was talking about, there was no point. It would have been a lie.

Levi was right.

Logan had been deeply in love with Faith for as long as he could remember.

The only difference between all the other times she’d pushed him away and now was that he’d finally had a taste of what being with Faith could be like. And he wasn’t going to let it go so easily this time.

“So, you’re getting married tomorrow. How’s that feel?”

Getting Dax in the car without attracting too much attention had been harder than Logan had thought. Despite the fact that Dax himself didn’t seem too fussed about attracting attention. He spoke loudly in the airport and more than once Logan had to cut him off before he said the name of the town they were taking him to. Stephanie had been clear. She didn’t want anyone to know about the wedding. It was important to her to have a low-key elopement. So that’s what she would have. Not that her fiancé seemed too worried about it, the way he was carrying on in public.

Regardless, they had him in the car now and were finally making their way out of the city and back to the mountains. Dax looked up from his phone long enough to answer Logan’s question. “It doesn’t feel any way, I guess. As long as it makes Steph happy, that’s all that matters.”

In the front seat, Levi and Logan exchanged glances. “But you want to get married?” Levi asked.

Dax answered with a shrug. “Doesn’t really matter either way, I guess. Like I said, if it makes her happy, that’s what it’s all about, right? You guys know. You have women.”

Again, they exchanged a glance, but it was Levi who spoke. “I agree about making your woman happy, but marriage…well, it’s definitely one of those things that you should both be one hundred percent into. At least, in my opinion.”

“Agreed.” Logan grinned. “And from my limited experience in the wedding business, I’d say that applies all across the board.”

Still, Dax shrugged and looked back to his phone. A few minutes later, he looked up. “What do you guys know about this super tiny, super-fast wedding she wants? Like, two months ago, she wanted the full blow-out with all our friends and family and everything. Like a four-page spread inPeoplemagazine, ya know? Eloping won’t get us that kind of publicity.”

That’s the point.

As much as Logan had taken an instant disliking to the man, he was still Stephanie’s fiancé, and also, a client. There was nothing to be gained by making him an enemy or making things any harder on Steph than was necessary. So instead of saying what he really wanted to, Logan turned around in the passenger seat. “This is more romantic,” he said. “Intimate and special, with just the two of you. And if it’s publicity you want, then later, when you share the photos, they’ll blow up because everyone will be so surprised that the two of you eloped. It’ll be big news. The wedding of the century that flew under the radar. It’ll be huge.”

He must have said the right thing, because Dax put down his phone and for the first time since he’d arrived, looked interested. “Do you think so?”

Both men in the front seat nodded. “For sure. And,” Logan continued, “then Steph’s happy too. And that’s a win-win.”

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