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“Crystal clear. Yes.” Kendall wanted to kick a hole in the nearest wall, but he controlled himself. Clay was very adamant about his role as protector of women. Kendall understood that if Jocelyn didn’t want to contact them, Clay would never, ever reveal her address.
“So let me ask, if it turns out to be Jocelyn who invaded your security system, what will you do?”
“I’ll want to know why she did it.” And if she seduced me and Logan to get inside our home or because she was actually interested in us. She couldn’t have faked that desire and the round-one experience, could she? Kendall didn’t want to contemplate that scenario.
“Fine. I’ll do some checking. Keep in mind that it may very well not be her, Kendall. Unique name or not, she could be innocent of this.” He appreciated his brother’s confident attitude.
“Right. I’ll keep that in mind.” He wanted to believe that notion with all his heart. But Kendall knew it was her. On some level deep down inside his very soul, he knew she’d been the one to slip in and access their system both times, the moment Clay simply uttered her name.
After promising to get back to him in a day or two, Clay hung up. Kendall was left with the queasy feeling that he’d allowed another woman to fool him. Logan would totally flip out if it turned out she’d only used them for sex to gain something or to use them for some other purpose.
Kendall had been best friends with Logan since the seventh grade. They’d spent a lot of quality time together over the years. They had even gone into business together with this Old West Town over a decade ago. After so much time together, none had been more poignant as when Logan broke up with his ex-fiancée and retreated to this house to stay with Kendall not quite a decade ago.
Logan had been bitterly betrayed by his ex-fiancée several years ago. Brittney lied to keep Logan in her life after learning he was worth quite a bit of money. Beforehand, she’d been of the opinion that a mere stable master in the Old West Town park wasn’t a prestigious enough job to lower herself to for a lifetime.
Heart filled with love for her and only her at the time, Logan had asked her to marry him. Brittney had not said yes or no, at first. She’d wanted time to consider changing her life to live in Montana. Logan had planned to give it all up and move anywhere she wanted. But then she discovered his true bank balance.
Their bitter, contentious breakup once Logan overheard her true feelings about him during a callous phone conversation had scarred his heart to anyone else. At least until Jocelyn kissed her way into his life a week ago. Logan had changed after she left.
Kendall looked at the staircase. He needed to tell Logan about the conversation with Clay. But he didn’t want to. He didn’t want to break his spirit, but Logan didn’t like having secrets kept from him, or being protected from bad news either.
If Jocelyn turned out to be the hacker and only interested in them to get inside the compound, Logan would never forgive her. Kendall wasn’t sure if he would be able to forgive duplicity like that either. But he wouldn’t give up Logan’s trust.
Kendall climbed the stairs and headed for Logan’s room with a heavy heart ready to tell him what Clay had said. For as much as he wanted to see Jocelyn again, Kendall hoped it would be under more desirable circumstances, and not the taint of betrayal.
Jocelyn had agonized for an entire week over leaving Montana, and more specifically saying good-bye to Logan and Kendall. There was not a waking moment since she’d driven out of the Old West Town parking lot that she didn’t think about them and wish for a different life so she could join them. But that was not her current reality.
Her parents had been incensed that she’d dared to return at all without Jenna in tow. Apparently, she was supposed to stay gone and ignore her life forever until her sister was located then dragged back to her parents’ home for a lecture on what they’d decided was best for her future.
Jocelyn spent another several days in fruitless searches getting nowhere. Then a friend of a friend that her father had bullied for information had mentioned an old acquaintance of Dean’s having moved to New York City recently.
