Disclaimer: Still don't own any of the characters

A/N: I know that it has been a lot of Logan, but since I had started his story three months behind Rory finding out that she was pregnant, I wanted to catch up his timeline and get them in the same place. I promise the next chapter will be Rory :) Please enjoy and make sure you review!

Chapter 3

Logan instinctively picked up the phone to call Rory; he was just about to hit send when he stopped himself. That wasn't fair to her. She had said her goodbye to him and he had seen the sadness in her eyes. He couldn't blow back into her life less than a week later, telling her that he had ended things with Odette and wanted to be with her instead. That was too much to throw on her right now. He put his phone back in his briefcase next to the portfolio that he had forgotten and laughed silently to himself; at least he had remembered to grab it after everything that had went on that morning.

He headed back into the office and sat down in his chair behind the modern glass desk. He shoved his hand through his short blond hair and then down his face, covering his mouth for a moment before reaching for the phone to inform his father of the recent events. "Good Morning Gloria" Logan said when his father's secretary answered the phone, "Can I speak with my father please? It is of utmost importance." He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

"Of course Mr. Huntzberger, I will transfer you right away"

The line went silent for a moment before ringing through to his father's office. Mitchum answered the phone after the second ring, "Logan, my boy, to what do I owe this pleasure?"

Logan took a large breath and just said the words "Dad, the wedding is off. I caught Odette screwing another man in my bed this morning." He calmly waited for his father's reply.

Mitchum had definitely not expected this conversation when he answered the phone, but for once he found himself agreeing with a decision his son made. "Okay, I will call the PR team to see how we will handle this going forward. I think the best thing will be to have this go away quickly and quietly." His mind was already in damage control mode and he was not really paying attention to his son on the other line. He knew Logan didn't love Odette, that wasn't the purpose of their marriage, and he knew that Logan wasn't going to be faithful to her throughout their marriage; however, he could not have her running around on his son, possibly bringing a baby into this world that she was passing off as a Huntzberger but was not.

Logan was slightly taken back that his father simply agreed with him. He tentatively answered him "Yes, I think that would be best."

After a short conversation discussing some possible ways to handle the situation, Logan and his father ended their conversation with Logan's assurance that he would call the PR office and cooperate with whatever they suggested.

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It had been three months since his engagement ended, and in those three months he had reached for the phone countless times to call her; but, he never followed through. He knew he loved her, he knew they belonged together, but he also knew that he wasn't always good for her. The last few years he had not been fair to her, he knew that and it made him feel ashamed. Yes, she was a grown woman and had went along with the whole thing, in fact she had been dating Pete or Paul or whatever his name was for 2.5 or 3 years, almost the entirety of their affair; but that didn't matter, she deserved better and he hadn't given it to her. They had hung onto the love they shared, but she had so many emotional scars from growing up without her father, watching her mom in one dead end relationship after another, never being able to commit and let herself be happy. They had many conversations about this topic over the years, he knew that was why she said no when he proposed at her graduation party; she had never had a positive role model for a healthy relationship and neither had he. He grew up with parents who barely tolerated each other but would put on a good face when they were at society events. His father had a slew of mistresses and his mother just turned her head and would go and spend his father's money on something new and shiny for herself instead.

Looking back he can see that the biggest mistake he had made was giving her that ultimatum; who knows where they would be right now if he had just given her the concession of staying together but living their lives apart for a little while. Maybe, just maybe she would have gotten out there and realized that being away from him wasn't what she wanted and she would have come to California and they could have started their lives together. Instead, he had pushed her away, and then when he ran into her in London a few years later, instead of telling her what he really wanted, he kept her at arms length and played along with her "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" approach to the two of them. She had been so adamant that no one know about them, it had stung deep the first time they were out in public and they saw a mutual friend and she quickly turned around and darted away, pulling him with her, before they were seen together. Because she had been so anti-relationship with him, he didn't fight too hard when his mother had pushed him and Odette together, saying how they would be the perfect society couple. When he told Rory, he saw the initial sadness and jealousy in her eyes, but she quickly covered it up and told him that she understood and gave him her blessing to pursue the relationship with Odette; that moment is when he thought for sure what they had was going to be over, but to his surprise she continued to call him and show up at his flat any time she was in London. Before he knew it, 3 years had flown by and he still had her by his side in private, but in public he had Odette; now though, now he had no one and he could only blame himself.

He looked around his flat, full of boxes and nothing on the walls and it felt like the end of a chapter in his life. This place was full of too many memories, memories of him and Rory that just smacked him in the face every time he walked in. He needed a fresh start, so he had went to his father and asked to be transferred back stateside to run one of the company's holdings, and surprisingly, Mitchum had agreed to it without argument. The London social circuit had gotten wind of the broken engagement, as had the French circuit; they had tried to keep it quiet, but socialites are not known for keeping any type of juicy gossip to themselves, so as soon as word of Odette's indiscretion had reached one socialite, it had spread like wildfire through society. Logan could hardly handle all the looks of sympathy he had gotten, as well as all the women who so graciously offered to take his place. It was exhausting to pretend to care about a broken engagement that he never wanted to be in in the first place. So off he was going, back to the states to oversee a paper that HPG had acquired in New Hampshire.