Page 43 of He Loves Me Knot
“Logan.” Callum stood and dusted his hands off before offering it to him. “How are you? You get in last night?”
Logan nodded. “Flight was delayed for four hours. We arrived just past midnight. Good to see you, Liddy.”
Liddy touched her tingling cheek and smiled up at Logan. She hoped she didn’t look as disheveled as she felt, but so be it. “Hi, Logan. Good to see you again so soon.”
She didn’t normally see the youngest Camden brother, who had just finished his university studies the year before. Like Quinn, he’d chosen not to go into the family business. Unlike Quinn, he often stayed in Littleton, the family estate Quinn had inherited as the eldest, which was why Liddy had needed to get the wedding dress from Logan a few days earlier.
Logan nodded pleasantly at her board. “I wouldn’t have taken you for a surfer, Liddy.”
“I’m not.” She stretched out her legs. “But hopefully that means you didn’t witness my crash-landing into the shore.”
“I missed that one,” Logan said, then shifted. “Erm, Liddy, by any chance, could I trouble you to have a peek at Elle’s wedding dress? You still have it, right? My mother asked me if I could bring it to her room for a few minutes. She said she peeked in Elle’s room but didn’t see it there.”
Shit.Of all the people to ask to see the dress.
“Oh.” Liddy’s heart thudded in her chest. “Oh, uh, do you know why she needs it?”
“I didn’t ask,” Logan said sheepishly. “But I’ll bring it back to you directly.”
Ugh.She couldn’t just say no, right? But why on earth did Quinn’s mom need the dress?
She could tell him she’d already handed it over to Elle, which would make sense, but she didn’t want to force Elle into having to fabricate something. “Um. Sure. Let me just finish up here, and then . . . I’ll find you?”
“Perfect. I’m in bungalow eight.”
Callum frowned as Logan left them. “That’s inconvenient. What are we going to do?”
That he’d used the wordwemade her pause. What he meant didn’t need to be spelled out.
We’re in this together.
She swiped strands of her hair out of her eyes and held his gaze, a warm feeling spreading across her chest. “I’m not sure. Leave sooner rather than later and find Sergio, to begin with? Maybe Kyle will help me come up with some activities that Quinn and his brothers can stay distracted with.”
“We can leave right away. We’ll get there early, but it’ll be fine. And my mum might have some good suggestions to keep the men occupied. I can talk to her.”
That he’s willing to talk to his mom to help is . . . huge.
She looked at him and a slow smile spread on her face. “We’re not becoming friends, right? Because I’m not sure if I could live with myself if that happened.”
“Not on your life. We’re partners in crime, that’s all.”
Liddy dragged her fingers through the tangles in her hair again, the sting of salt water still deep in her throat.
The image of Callum lifting her from the water rocked her senses.
She couldn’t really be feeling friendly toward him, could she?
That was quick.
Too quick.
“Be careful with that guy. I don’t trust him.”Kyle’s words rang in her ears.
She had a bad habit of not making the best choices in the men she trusted. Just look at what had happened with Sergio.
She wouldn’t make that mistake with Callum.
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