Page 86 of Consuming Logan

After dealing with everyone’s censure, Logan closed his eyes and breathed. What the hell had Ava done while he slept? It was as if she’d broadcasted an amber alert that he’d messed everything up between them.

“Darwin, I need your help.”

His brother remained quiet.

“Did you hear me. I need help.”

“With what?”

“Ava. I need to find her.”

“No. You’ve hurt that woman so bad I don’t think I can look at you right now.”

Logan was flabbergasted. “Listen, I’ll explain.”

“Don’t want to hear it. All you’ve done since the accident is drink and brood.”

“I know. I’ve been in a funk,” he began. “I’m done with that.”

“Yeah, until your next drink.”

“Done with that, too.”

“Ava’s pregnant with your children. Ever consider they might be better off without you?”

Pain crept through Logan’s heart that he’d been so focused on his own tragedy that he didn’t realize the train wreck he’d engineered in his own family.

“Darwin, please. There’s so much you don’t understand. I have to tell you something about me and Ava.”

He wasn’t sure he understood everything Ava had done overnight. But he knew enough to be really afraid.

“I looked up to you. Always wanted to be like my big brother. But after the way you’ve treated dad and the callous attitude toward the man who saved your damn life is piss poor. Hell, it’s his security team that’s keeping you and Ava safe.”

Tyson. Tyson’s people would have seen Ava leave last night. Why hadn’t he thought of it before now? Because he didn’t want anything Tyson had to offer.

Without hesitation Logan said the two words he had been saying a lot today and would continue to into the future.

“I’m sorry, Darwin. I’m sorry that I failed you. God knows, I love, Ava and my babies. I’d sacrifice anything to have them back home.”

His telephone signaled an incoming call.

“Hold on, I have a call coming in from Sarah.” Sarah Jones Stevens managed Logan and Ava’s financial portfolio including the land acquisition for his and Ava’s future house. Had something gone wrong with the purchase? He clicked over. It would have to wait. Before she could speak, he said, “Sarah, I can’t talk money with you right now.”

“You’d better,” came her curt response.

“What is it?”

“I just got a call from Ava to stop her contributions to your joint accounts.”

Logan audibly swallowed. “She would not do that.” Ava would not cut him out…unless.

“That’s not all, Logan. She requested I withdraw all her available cash.”

His breath seized. “What? Why?”

Why would she need to withdraw lump sums of her cash?

“Logan, when I asked Ava what was going on—,”