Page 66 of Meet Me at Sunset Cove

“I’m done with that. I ended it with Cassie. I’m sorry!” Logan repeated, his hands reaching out.

“You said that.”

“Well it’s true. I was an idiot, and I took you for granted. And I’m sorry. I’m sososorry.” He crossed the room, his hands coming up to hold her. His steely-blue eyes capturing her, holding her gaze. “Please, Daisy. Come back to California. Come back to our life.”

Daisy froze, her heart hammering in her chest.

Their life.

She tried to wrap her head around what that life looked like. She and Logan. A power couple. Fame. Awards.Success. That had always been the plan, hadn’t it?

Except…she wasn’t so sure that was the life she wanted anymore.

Not with him.

Logan brushed a thumb over her cheek. “We can fix this.”

Daisy placed her hands on his chest. “No, we really can’t, Logan.”

He frowned, his arms tightening as she tried to pull away. “So that’s it, you’re just going to throw away five years together because of one mistake?”

For a moment, Daisy actually felt bad for him. He really believed they could work this out. She reached up, brushing a hair away from his face, the way she used to do before the camera started rolling. “No,” she said sadly. “I’m throwing away five years together because I can’t remember the last time you looked at me the way he looks at me.”

Logan’s face contorted in confusion, then understanding dawned. “The contractor?” Logan’s eyebrow raised. “The guy who’s been too busy to help you with all this? Come on, Daisy. You deserve better.”

His arms around her tightened, a hand sliding up her back to cup her head as his gaze dropped to her lips. “You deserve a man who won’t hold you back.”

Just then, a creak from the doorway caught their attention. She turned to see Hunter standing there, his face a mask of shock and hurt. The tension in the room shifted instantly, crackling with a new energy.

Daisy’s eyes widened, her heart dropping to her stomach. “Hunter,” she breathed, taking an instinctive step toward him.

But before she could say anything more, Hunter turned and walked away, his footsteps quick and heavy on the porch.

Daisy turned back to Logan, shoving hard as she pushed out of his grasp. “I can’t believe you.”

Logan scoffed, his eyes rolling. “Come on, Daze?—”

“I’m going after him. Because I choosehim.” She turned toward the door “Don’t be here when I get back.”

* * *

And here he’d been about to apologize.

Ten minutes earlier, he’d been waging words through his head—I’m sorry I abandoned you.The cold wind had whisked through his hair as Hunter trudged up the hill, two cups of coffee in hand.

He’d asked at the coffee shop for their best apology brew. “You know, something that says, ‘Sorry I’ve been too busy to spend time with my fiancée’?” he’d said as his eyes skimmed the menu.

Jill had done even better. Not two minutes later, a pair of Daisy’s favorite drinks slid across the counter.

“So the lady can choose,” she’d said with a wink.

Now, Hunter savored the way the coffee aroma mixed with the smell of pine and the way the heat seeped into his palms. The gray sky overhead tried to be bleak, but it only served to make the red and orange leaves, peeking from under the snow, pop like flame.

Waylen had been right. Maybe spending a little time with his fiancée—fake fiancée—was exactly what he needed. And hopefully she wasn’t too upset about the last two weeks.

His feet trudged up the path and paused outside the house. A set of horseshoe prints trailed down the street, and Hunter smiled. If he knew Daisy, she’d probably waited all of two minutes before dragging everything inside herself.

He stepped up to the door, a smile already tugging at his lips, and then he froze, his fingertips falling from the door handle as it swung silently out of his grip.

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