Setting the company to have ten consecutive days off at the end of the year turned out to be hellish for the rest of the working days between Thanksgiving to the Year End Party, he barely had time to meet with Rory.

They spent the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend in their own little bubble, never set foot outside the land. They made breakfast together, Logan cooked and Rory disturbed, obviously.

Then they explored the land. "You have a lake!!!I always wanted to date a man who have a lake, but afraid that he could kill me and just throw my body in his lake," was Rory's expression of highest surprise when she saw his tiny lake, much to his annoyance on her dark and not-even-funny joke.

They ordered in their lunches and dinners and fell into a comfortable couple weekend, where they read books at noon, watched movies at the evening, and made love at night. Rory took that corner in the library where he pictured her, although she was reading her kindle because he didn't have any good books yet around the house.

Movies, on the other hand, he had a lot. And they would argue choosing what movie to watch, and then argue some more about the movie they watched.

It felt so normal and comfortable and familiar. And Logan felt content. That was until the holidays were over and Rory had to go back to living in the other state.

They had discuss their plan to move in together, and decided that it would be easier if Logan moves to the city, because his time was divided between the Hartford office and the New York office and lately he spent more in the New York office because his dad chose Hartford, and there was not much to be done if Mitchum were there to command.

They would keep the house in Hartford too because Rory fell in love with the house and she had managed to make Logan promised to built her a gazebo near the lake. "Make it look like the gazebo in Stars Hollow," she said. And she also had him promise to spend weekends there.

The only problem was that the moving in together plan could not run before the New Year, because his crazy ten days off policy that he's beginning to regret had put the year end load into the rest of the working days and he found himself working double times every day, even on weekends.

"Ace," he said when she answered the video call.

"Yes, Logan?" Her smiling face appeared on the screen.

"Nothing. I have half a minute in between meetings and I needed to hear your voice and see your face. So, there. Heard your voice. Saw your face. Gotta go, talk to you later!" He talked fast.

"Hey!" She protested.

Logan chuckled, he didn't want to end the call yet but the people he's having the meeting with were started to come in to the meeting room.

"Gotta go, Ace. Love you!" He grinned.

"Love you too," she responded.

He drank in her smiling face that showed her dimple, slightly blushed cheeks, and a brighter than the summer sky pair of eyes. He could never be tired of that face. If anything, it pumped up his energy that was running really low just a second ago. He didn't even care the knowing look shot at him from his staffs in the meeting room. He needed a dose of Rory to keep him going.

Yeah that should be enough for now, he thought before starting the meeting.

That was seven hours ago, and crazy as it was he hadn't been able to pick up his phone and shot her a single text since then. There were always something or someone requiring his attention.

At the end of the day, way after the normal work hours ended, Logan sat on his chair exhausted, ready to call it a night and head home. He pushed the intercom to instruct his assistant to call his driver and go home after that, but the woman showed up on his door after a quick light knock, "You have a guest..."

"Who is it?"

A brunette head popped in, "It's me,"

Logan instantly lighted up. "Ace! What a nice surprise!" He jumped out of his chair to the door.

He pulled Rory into his arms and placed a kiss on her mouth. It was a quick kiss, but Rory went super red on that display of attention in front of his assistant. But Logan didn't care, he had been thinking of it since the last time they met, probably on Wednesday. And it's Friday now.

"Macy, this is my girlfriend, Rory. Rory, this is Macy, my assistant." He introduced them. Macy knew about Rory of course, she wouldn't have let her in if she didn't know. Macy has been Logan's assistant since London and Logan was always an open book, never hesitated to share when ever he was feeling like sharing. And Macy often in the right place at the right times, although Logan thought she was only listening because she had to.

Rory also had known about Macy, a brief story about this competent young woman who can do anything. That's why Logan kept her around despite of her emotionless sour expression she had on all day. She rarely even smiled.

"Hi, Rory. Nice to finally meet you. I've worked for Logan far too long and came across your name several times, especially when he forced me to dig into the publishers that published your articles. It sounds romantic now, but trust me, it felt stalkerish to me," Macy said with her robotic intonation.

"Whoa, over sharing much?" Logan chuckled.

"Nice to finally meet you too, Macy. Logan had told me about you too," Rory said nicely.

"Oh, God. Did he tell you about how he drank my over sweet coffee for a week when the machine broke one time, and I didn't know how to make coffee manually because I don't drink coffee? Or how I sent his mother a discounted Coach bag for her birthday?" She asked horrified.

Rory and Logan laughed. "No, he told me how you can do anything and that you are a loyal person and he thinks of you as his little sister,"

Macy's brows furrowed and her face was making a weird expression. Logan assumed she was touched, but she seriously looked like she's constipated.

"A very annoying sister, I must add." Logan chimed in.

"Well, thank you Logan. It was very nice of you," she said with a small voice. Clearly didn't expect her boss to think so dearly of her.

"Anytime, Macy. Now, can we call it a night? And please don't tell me I have something to do tomorrow? I have been working on weekends for two weeks straight." Logan pleaded.

"I think you're safe, boss! Hang in there, just another week till the long awaited year end holidays!" She cheered with that flat tone and expressionless face.

"Right! Can't wait. So, let's go home. I want to spend a nice and quiet weekend with my girlfriend. And I assume you too?"

Macy scoffed. "My quest tonight is finding another one, my last girlfriend was a psycho!"

"That's what you said to all of them after a week. You're a hard girl to please, Macy!"

"Said someone who spent years with no girlfriend at all," she shot back. This woman knew too much.

Logan grabbed Rory's waist towards his side. "I'm saving myself for this one..."

"Yeah yeah, I really wished you didn't. Because those girls that you ditched? Sometimes they cried on my shoulders and you know..." she winked.

"I take it back! I take it back! You're not a little sister at all. You're a perverted incestuous evil brother!" Logan yelled at her back who was leaving the room unbothered.

"How come I ended up with Finn's replica as my assistant?" He shook his head.

Rory couldn't stop laughing since his first bicker with Macy and was now wiping a tear on the corner of her eye.

"I'm sorry that I have to crush your hopes now, Logan," Rory said apologetically.

"Why?"

"Because I thought that you needed a break and I kinda invited our friends to the house for a get together?"

Logan groaned again. So much for a quiet night with his girlfriend.

"They have been pestering me endlessly. They felt like they were abandoned..."

"Okay, but I'm kicking them out after two o'clock. I will need my energy to do the things I've been thinking to do to you all week,"

Rory giggled as he grabbed her for a hungry kiss. "Or, you can just do it now. That couch looks so inviting,"

Logan stunned briefly at her straight-forwardness but quickly turned on after his brain registered what she'd said.

Dear Lord.

"Well well Miss Gilmore, let's take a seat then."

The things that he'd been thinking to do to Rory all week ended up making them late for their own party. Apparently, what he'd been thinking to do to Rory involved the bedroom, while the couch would require another set of thinking, but he got it covered. He had ten years worth of 'thinking' to put into practice. Although he doubt now that he could work on his desk looking at that couch and actually done some work instead of thinking about what him and Rory did on the couch.

Anyway, they were late and Finn was not happy. They had let themselves into the house with the help of Logan's maid, but of course the house was not party ready yet, and they had to call reinforcements.

So when Rory and Logan arrived home, they found more than a dozen people everywhere around the house, dancing to a super loud music, with disco lightings and laser lights.

"Well, good thing our neighbors are trees," Rory said grinning sheepishly, dragging Logan's uninterested self inside.

They found Colin and Robert arguing on the couch in the living room after they grabbed drinks for themselves from the pop up bar, and by pop up, it means that Logan had no idea how it went there.

"Rory!" Robert said acknowledging their presence. "Hey Ror, meet my girlfriend, Bethany. She's here for the week before going to Paris for a photo shoot,"

Robert's girlfriend was a tall leggy blonde who looked bored all the time, she was on the cover of Vogue last week. She has an accent although Logan was pretty sure she came from Massachusetts.

"Hi Bethany, I'm Rory." Rory introduced herself with a genuine smile.

"Heard so much about you, Rory." She replied.

"Really? I hope it was good,"

"Well it wasn't all that much actually. Often, yes. But not much. All I kept hearing was Logan whining about a girl and Colin told him to stop comparing them to you, and Robert told him to start to really move on and Finn introduced him to another girl, and the cycle continues..." she gave her bored indifferent smile.

Logan and Colin exchanged surprised looks, particularly at how accurate she described the cycle.

"It's amazing how much a girl can hear when they think I was just some stupid blonde girl who cannot even spell her own name," she laughed devilishly.

"I know, right?! Often times I sat on the corner observing everything and came to conclusion half an hour before the meeting even came to conclusion, I learnt a lot about people by letting them speak and thinking that I can only sit still and look pretty,"

"Touché," Bethany clinked her champagne flute to Rory's martini glass. Both were laughing sheepishly at how ridiculous some men are and how they'd been treated as less their whole lives.

"This is creepy," Colin commented after a while, pointing at Bethany and Rory. "You know that, right? It's creepy that Robert got the girl who looked like a Greek goddess and actually has a brain? You know how unfair that was, right?"

Logan chuckled. "How is it unfair?"

"Well, because Robert doesn't have a brain." Colin answered nonchalantly. "A normal chick would be sufficient for him. He could be happy with a normal chick,"

"By normal, you mean, brainless chicks who does what you want when you want without questioning it? I'm starting to think that it was all just pretending,"

"Right. You're right. They were all sweet and mushy until the third date. And they turned into an evil witch once you say I do. So, Robert was right not to get married. And Finn was also right. Oh, God. I need a drink," Colin said after self analyzing the facts, which Logan didn't bother to argue with.

Logan could hear Bethany scoffed though, and she leaned in to Rory to whisper a little too loud. "Robert wanted to get married, but I'm not ready yet. You know, my career is on top now. Who knows how many years left do I have? I can't risk taking time off to build a family,"

Huh. Sounds familiar. Apparently the world has turned. Women wanted careers more than they wanted a family now. No matter what the profession was. And how did they, Yale's most legendary playboys were in this place now was beyond his comprehension. He shook his head and laughed at the irony.

Ten years ago girls thrown themselves at them in the hope that they will be their Mrs. But now, it looks like the girls they actually wanted to settle in with were not fond of the idea of a marriage.

Logan stood up and told Rory he went to grab another drink, pecked her cheek, and nodded at Bethany, left them both to bask in their top careers.

He spent some time to mingle with his guest, well... they were Finn's friends. But how do you call people that come to your party under other people's invitation. Did they become Finn's guests or still his guests? Anyway, they turned out to be some of the LDB members from their year. Most of them had already married and divorced. What a depressing crowd.

If he did got married straight after college, would he be one of them? Single-divorcée thirty-something guy? That sounded pathetic.

He looked for his other friends, Colin was nowhere to be found, and Finn was busying himself with two redheads. Nice. He sat on the backyard patio alone looking at a couple making out on his garden bench.

Wait.

Wait a minute.

Wait a fking minute.

The couple looked familiar.

Logan rushed himself into the house as if he saw a ghost and approached Rory.

"Rory, I just saw..."

A/N. Don't hate me for this cliffhanger. The story's getting a little boring...

I promise I won't keep you waiting too long though.

And shout out to my Rogan sisters who keeps supporting me and encouraging me this whole time. Love you all. Work has been crazy but I'll keep writing for you guys! Xoxo,