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Jocelyn was still in the exact same place as when they’d fallen asleep after making love. The phone stopped ringing after the second peal. Did Kendall get it?
Logan looked to the opposite side of the bed, where Kendall had been asleep earlier, but he was no longer there. Jocelyn stirred against him. Logan sat up, cradling her in his arms, wondering who’d called so early. It wasn’t quite dawn yet.
Kendall came back in the room a few minutes later holding a phone. “Jocelyn, it’s Clay. He has some pertinent information on where your sister is.”
Kendall handed the phone to a still sleepy-looking Jocelyn. Even though she’d sat bolt upright the moment he mentioned her sister, she didn’t look completely awake as she grabbed the phone. Meanwhile, Logan looked suitably satisfied. He should. Kendall had woken during their impromptu lovemaking earlier. The most surprising part of which had been the sincere expression of love from Logan in the aftermath.
Jocelyn climbed out of the bed, turned around as if looking for something, then mimed a pen and paper. Kendall steered her toward what she needed in the desk across the room. Phone cradled between her shoulder and ear, Jocelyn jotted several lines on the paper.
She stopped writing, and straightened. The expression on her face looked much relieved. “Thank you. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this.” She nodded and listened for several more moments.
“Right. Yes. I understand. I’ll get going right now. Again, thank you so much. I can’t believe you found her so quickly.”
Jocelyn grinned, said her good-byes to his brother, and hung up.
She immediately started picking up her clothes and putting them back on. Logan got out of bed slowly, and slid his legs into and fastened the pants he’d retrieved from the floor. Hands in his pockets, he suddenly pulled out a phone and gripped it. Then he sent a poignant look to Kendall. What was that about? He didn’t quite understand.
He was about to ask what was up when Jocelyn said, “Oh, my phone. I forgot you had it.” She finished putting her clothing back in place and reached for the device.
Logan handed it to her, but he had an odd expression Kendall would have to grill him about later on.
“I need to tell you something,” Logan said, looking miserable.
“What is it?”
“Earlier, before I realized that our phones look so much alike, I turned yours on by mistake.”
She shrugged. “That’s okay. It happens.” She didn’t look too upset.
“The thing is, when it rang, I accidently answered it before I discovered it wasn’t mine.”
“This morning?” Her face screwed up in puzzlement. “Who called me that early—” But her voice dropped off as if in sudden awareness of who might have called. Her face froze as if she realized a dreadful possibility.
“Was it my father?” She whispered her question.
Logan, looking completely miserable, nodded. “I’m really sorry, Jocelyn.”
She pushed out a breath, and shook her head as if resigned to the fact Logan had discovered something he didn’t intend. “Don’t worry about it. Did he ask who you were?”
Logan’s gaze went to Kendall for a moment before he responded. “No. Actually, I never said anything. Then I figured the best course of action was to hang up and pretend that it was a wrong number.”
“What did he say?”
“Well, actually quite a bit before I shut the phone off.”
Jocelyn rolled her eyes, and then hung her head. “Oh then you heard the standard, ‘I’m disappointed in you’ speech that I get on a regular basis.”
Logan walked over closer and took her in his arms. “I’m really sorry. He mentioned wanting you to go to New York. Is that where you’re headed?”
Her head snapped up and her expression hardened. “No, that would have been a big fat waste of time. Clay said she’s in Las Vegas, but that she might not be there for very much longer. I need to find a way to get there fast. It’s probably twelve hours or better if I drive it and that might be too long.”
Kendall walked over to the two of them. He wasn’t ready for her to depart.
She started swiping pages on her phone in a furious manner. “And there are no direct flights from the closest airport in Bozeman. I’d have to go through Denver for the next flight available. Which isn’t until this afternoon.”
