The Billionaire's Marriage Contract(62)

“Before I prove to Amy that I want her and only her, I have to prove I would want to be with her even if I didn’t need her for the business deal or any other reason for that matter.”#p#分页标题#e#

“What are you suggesting, young man?”

“I’m going to ask her to marry me.”

“You’re already married.”

“That’s why I’m going to ask Amy for a divorce.”

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Neither Violet nor Ethan had heard Callie knock on the apartment door. Neither of them heard her slip Amy’s key into the lock and push the door open. Once she was inside, neither of them heard as she stopped dead in her tracks upon hearing Vi’s words: You’re already married and Ethan’s voice: That’s why I’m going to ask Amy for a divorce. Without making another sound, Callie stepped back into the hallway. She was too surprised to speak. She was too surprised to do anything but head back to the elevator. She needed to call Amy. She needed to know what was going on.





Chapter 22

On the flight out to Wyoming, Amy had wondered what she’d feel when she saw Logan again for the first time. After all, he was handsome and charming, and he had almost managed to break up her fake marriage. But that was before she had pieced together who had taken the pictures of her at the bar. Now she wanted to rip his head off, even if she needed his help to get to the bottom of what exactly had happened.

Amy paced back and forth in front of his building for five minutes while she calmed herself enough to knock on the door. Before approaching the door, she stared up at Logan’s building. Why did everything in this town have to look like it was hand hewn from freshly milled logs? Even new buildings with tall ceilings and wide windows like Logan’s had a veneer of old west to them. The whole thing didn’t seem so charming to Amy this time around. It just seemed fake. When she finally walked up to Logan’s loft, the door was open, and Amy strode into Logan’s living room. It was sparsely furnished, and reminded Amy of a cross between Ethan’s apartment and a dorm room. She tossed the photos onto the table before he even realized she was there. “Tell me you had nothing to do with this.”

Logan didn’t even look at the pictures. He just stared off into space as he said, “It’s complicated.”

“What’s so complicated about it? Your bartender took pictures of you luring me into a room and made it look like we were having an affair. She was the only one who could have taken these. Am I missing something here?”

“I wasn’t trying to make it look like anything. And why do you care about some pictures? You know nothing happened.”

“I care because they shouldn’t even exist. I care because they are online. Was it her? Why did you let this happen?”

“Do you have any idea what it’s like to have your father hand his company over to someone else after he’s been telling you it’s your birthright since you were a kid? Have you ever had to listen again and again to how wonderful that person is? Leaving you alone with me was such a taunt. Here’s my beautiful wife. You can never have her, just like everything else. You were such a convenient solution to all of his problems. A quiet quickie marriage. You were off limits and you were interesting. When your husband disappeared, I just let things take their natural course.”

“What are you implying?”

“I’m not an idiot, Amy. I might not be a tycoon like my father or your husband, but I know a few things, and I know how you looked at me. Try for one moment to tell me that you weren’t interested. Tell me you didn’t get carried away with it, too. I don’t think you’re mad about the picture. I think you’re mad about what it shows.”

“And what do you think it shows?”

“A woman who wasn’t in love with her husband.”

Amy wasn’t sure how to respond. Logan wasn’t wrong. When she first met Logan she had been angry with Ethan for leaving her alone while he jetted back to the East Coast. She had been trying to convince herself that the marriage was just a business deal, and the whole Logan thing was her way of justifying it to herself at the time. Things had changed since then, though, and she wasn’t about to give up on what she had with Ethan just because of some misleading photos. “How did they leak?”

“After I realized that my behavior was the reason my father had to find someone else to run the company, I decided to look in the mirror. I changed my ways.”

“You changed your ways? And somehow escalating to tabloid fodder is changing your ways?”