The Player Next Door by Davis Elizabeth

Author:Davis, Elizabeth [Davis, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
Amazon: B09TGSM51L
Goodreads: 61920818
Publisher: Headline Eternal
Published: 2022-10-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

Clare’s phone buzzed with a text and she picked it up, her pulse spiking when she saw it was from Logan. Their interactions had felt charged since game day, like things had shifted ever so slightly in a particular direction.

Logan

I know this is weird, but I have to take some stuff down to my dad in Northfield.

Would you want to come? Just for the afternoon.

Idk I feel like you’d get along well with Burt.

He was asking her to meet his dad? They were, at best, a one-night-stand-turned-friends-turned-maybe-something-more, but the maybe-something-more part was still largely unsaid and against her better judgment. Meeting his dad felt like a huge, momentous step, considering they hadn’t so much as kissed since the night they slept together. There was a now familiar twist in her stomach whenever she thought about how it all started, but she wasn’t sure how to explain it without making Logan sound like a research project, and she was learning that even his adamantium ego had limits. Part of her felt like she should push to talk to him about it, clarify where they stood a bit more, but whatever. Clare had always found she’d had a tenuous relationship with her dignity anyway. More often than not, pride seemed like an excuse people used to keep themselves from doing what they really wanted to do but were embarrassed to admit it.

Clare

Sure. When are we leaving?

An hour later, Clare was waiting just outside the underground parking garage for Logan’s car to pull up. He seemed a little strained as she climbed into the passenger seat, giving tight, one-word answers until they were out of the city, flying down the interstate. There was a storm brewing to the west, clouds stacking up across the farm fields like ominous soldiers, but for the moment, the sun was still shining. “So, Northfield?” she said, more to break the tense silence than anything else. “You grew up there?”

Logan rested his elbow on the ledge near the window and rubbed his hand back and forth through his hair. “I did, yeah. My dad grew up there, so we had family around after—well, after.”

“And what are we bringing him?” she looked around the car but didn’t see any sign of anything that looked like a delivery.

“Stuff from Smorgasbord. He loves their frozen meals, but they don’t have one near him, and he hates driving in the Cities. Once a month or so I stock up for him and bring it down.”

“That’s really sweet of you.”

Logan shrugged awkwardly and signaled, moving toward an off ramp. It was now or never, so Clare screwed up her courage. “Can I ask you something?” she started. He nodded, eyes on the road. “Why did you ask me to come along? I mean, obviously I’m happy to, but—we’re not like, dating or anything, and meeting your dad feels, I dunno, formal? Big? Something like that, you know?”

Logan stayed silent for so long she considered opening the door and rolling out of the car.

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