Page 26 of Out of Bounds
I don’t think it did. I know my grandfather more than she does. He’s old fashioned and proud of it.
“I don’t know what to tell you. Have you spoken to him about it?”
“Several times and now he won’t speak to me unless it’s to set the dinner date he wants to have with Miranda and me.”
Logan laughs. “Jesus Ethan, you and your craziness. Why the hell did you make up a girlfriend?”
“Come on, you know why. He was always trying to set me up with this ones daughter and that one. I couldn’t stand it and the women weren’t my type.”
“And what exactly is your type again?” He shakes his head and takes a swig of his beer.
“That’s not relevant here. The point is I don’t date.”
“Are you ever?”
“I don’t know.”
“You never did tell me how your meeting went with Bree.”
Bree again. The subject of the day.
“It went as expected. Can we please get back to me? I’m in a real dilemma here. He wants me with Miranda and a wedding date.”
“I think you should come clean, and even then, I don’t think he’s going to change his mind.”
“Me neither. I want the business Logan. It’s on my fucking mind twenty-four seven since he told me about it. It feels like the shift in my life and I was going to take that sabbatical and head to Cape Cod.”
He knows about that. His face softens but he shakes his head.
“Do the two have to be synonymous? I mean you could still take the trip.”
“I could but I don’t think I could be away for as long as I want to be.” That’s the part we haven’t talked about and what I’m not sure about myself.
“And how long’s that?”
“I was thinking of starting with six months.”
His mouth drops. “What? I thought you’d be away for a maybe a month. This is different.”
“Yeah, because this is about me letting go of the past and I think it might change me. I don’t really want to be here when that happens.”
“Why? Home’s the best place to be if you feel like that.”
“I don’t know. That’s the answer. Maybe I just need to get wasted in Vegas and then I’ll be able to see straight. Wish you were coming with us.”
He’s not going for obvious reasons. The trip we plan to have isn’t for the married or guys with girlfriends.
“Those crazy days are over, and I have everything I want inside that house.” He nods looking over at the house where Quinn currently is cooking dinner.
“I’m happy for you.”
“I know you are. Now I gotta figure out how to help you and I can’t other than telling you to see what happens. Maybe he’s right in ways and this might give you the nudge to at least do relationships.”
I shake my head at him. We talked and I’m still on square one.
What did I expect though? The only answer to this is the one I keep coming up with.
Get married.
