Page 48 of Billionaire Unforgettable: Tanner

He grinned. “Of course you can. I have a private jet. It would actually be quite easy to arrange.”

He was insane, but there was something sweet about the fact that he wanted to fulfill an old promise to me.

“I’ll get there someday,” I said. “There’s no reason for you to feel like you have to make good on a promise you made a long time ago, but thank you for offering.”

“We will go there together at some point in the future, Hannah. But I can be a patient man when I want something badly enough.”

I would have laughed if he hadn’t sounded so serious.

Tanner Remington was not usually a patient guy.

“If that’s true,” I replied. “Then you really have changed.”

“Maybe I’ve learned that some things are worth the wait,” he mused.

He didn’t explain that comment further, and I didn’t feel like I could ask him exactly what he meant.

However, I was pretty sure that he was biding his time, waiting for…something.

If he was waiting for me to tell him that I was willing to go on what should have been a very romantic honeymoon trip for the two us, he was going to be waiting forever.

At one time, that had been one of my dreams, but going with Tanner to Australia as a friend would be more like a nightmare for me.

It would be an excruciatingly painful experience for me.

I was finally beginning to realize that I’d never quite gotten over Tanner Remington.

It was a bad situation for me to be in because I knew we could never recapture the intimacy we’d once had between the two of us.

Yet, I still wanted to be near him. I wanted to know this intriguing man that had apparently changed profoundly since our last year or so together.

I’d put myself in this dilemma by agreeing to spend time with him.

The question was, what in the hell was I going to do now?

Hannah

Our first night in Helena had gone well.

We’d picked up takeout food for dinner because I had to get up early the next morning and go to work.

Staying together in the same suite on night one had been pretty easy. I’d retreated to bed early because I had to get up early.

It was today, day two, that was a little more awkward.

I’d finished with my duties at the wedding in the afternoon, and Tanner had picked me up in his rental vehicle after his lunch with a friend.

I’d been excited when we’d played like tourists in the area for the rest of the afternoon.

We’d gone to the Gates Of The Mountains Wilderness Area, and taken a breathtaking boat ride on the Missouri River because neither of us had ever done it before.

I’d always wanted to visit the spot that Meriwether Lewis had first documented during his explorations, and to my delight, that was something that Tanner had never forgotten about me.

We’d lingered there as long as possible because it was peaceful before we’d headed back to downtown Helena for dinner.

We’d arrived back at our suite after dinner.

Although Helena was the capital of Montana, and was considered a city, there wasn’t a lot to do at night unless one wanted to hit the clubs or bars.

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