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changes, Wolfe, and then bring the plans back to me.”
    Realizing the meeting had come to an end, James Wolfe stood, rolled up the plans and inserted them into the protective tube. “I’ll take a few days with these then give you a call. When’s the ground-breaking ceremony?”
    “Mid-June,” Logan responded. “As soon as I finalize the changes, we’ll move forward.”
    James extended his hand to Gina.
    She clasped it and shook it. “It was nice to meet you,” she said politely.
    “It was good meeting you, too. Take care now. Logan, I can see myself out.”
    Moments later, she and Logan were standing alone in his study. “I didn’t mean to throw a wrench into what Mr. Wolfe had already designed.”
    “I invited you to this meeting for your input. I’m pleased you gave it. Your ideas are sound.” Logan reached for the knot on his tie and pulled it loose.
    “I know kids,” she said softly. “And what they need.”
    After unfastening the shirt button at his neck, Logan came around the table and stood close to her. She didn’t feel crowded by him. Oddly, she welcomed his nearness in the same way she’d shied away from James Wolfe’s proximity, as well as his touch.
    Logan’s voice was low when he asked, “And what do you need, Gina?”
    His green gaze was piercing and unsettled her. “I don’t know what you mean.”
    “My architect is interested in you.”
    “He was just being friendly.”
    “But you weren’t being friendly back.”
    “I…” She stopped, took a deep breath, then gave a nonchalant shrug. “I wasn’t interested.”
    Logan came another step closer. Her temperature went up a few notches, especially when he said, “You’re not stepping away from me.”
    What was he doing? Testing her? Trying to identify any attraction between them? Did he still feel attracted? Was that possible?
    “I know you,” she murmured, standing her ground.
    “Not anymore, you don’t. I’m not that kid who didn’t know up from down or right from left, or much about what made women tick.”
    “You know what makes women tick now?” she teased, trying to lessen the intensity in the room.
    He gave a short laugh. “Not by a long shot. But I do have a hint. After all, being married gives a man much-needed insight. If he doesn’t learn fast, he’ll go under without a lifeline.”
    Trying to take a step back from the sexual tension that had developed between them, she responded, “Basically, I guess men need to know women want tobe respected, and listened to and that most care deeply about love and family.”
    Logan still held her gaze. “I learned family is important and children are the most important. Amy died so Daniel could live. I had trouble wrapping my mind around that one for a while. She gave up her life and our life for our little boy.”
    Immediately, Gina felt sympathy for Logan because he still seemed perplexed by the idea. Yet she knew a father’s love could be as fierce as a mother’s. “Logan, if you were in the middle of the ocean and Daniel fell overboard, you’d jump in after him without a second thought to try to save him.” She’d seen him with Daniel. It was obvious that Logan cared about his son and wouldn’t let anything hurt him if he could help it. Just as his wife had done, in her own way.
    Shaking his head, Logan said almost to himself, “You’re still that young, compassionate girl who could talk to a horse and understand the expression in its eyes, aren’t you?”
    “Why does that unsettle you?” she asked, feeling as if this conversation was quickly going down a dangerous road.
    “Because I wanted you to have changed. To have become hard and ambitious and uncaring, because then I still wouldn’t…be attracted to you.”
    She practically stopped breathing. His words made her feel as if she was eighteen again, and they were standing close, about to kiss.
    She shook her head, anxious to get rid of the rush of emotion. “We’re not who we were back then.” She