Page 14 of Twisted Fate

“It did, but we’re working on it now. Alice, my niece, is so excited about there being three babies and she can barely stand up herself.”

“I bet.” He smiled, enjoying watching her talk about her niece. He’d thought Rosa would stick around, but he hadn’t known about her sister. He was glad she’d managed to mend that bridge. She really had changed, he decided, although he’d known that all along, really.

“So yeah, I’m not really alone, just not with a man.” Her cheeks turned pink and he decided it was best to ignore it. Even if those pink cheeks thawed him a little more.

“You know, Keily, I was a real dick that night I left you.” Logan found himself saying.

He’d spent months trying to hold his own emotions back, trying to deny that he really missed Keily and that he hated not being near her. Now that he was with her though, now that he could smell her and see her, he couldn’t deny it anymore.

“I would like it if...” He started but she held a hand up.

“Please, don’t. If you’re about to say what I think you are, please don’t. I can’t, not right now.” She shook her head even though her eyes pleaded with him to make it all better. “I need to concentrate on making these babies right now and, well, I just can’t right now.”

“I understand.” He answered, but it wasn’t what he wanted to say. He wanted to ask her to stay, forever.

7

Keily

“My hormones will be the death of me,” Keily said to Rosa two weeks later, her feet up on the coffee table at her place.

“Logan’s hotness getting to you?” Rosa smirked a knowing grin.

“Why does he have to be so hot?” Keily moaned and faked a sob. “It’s killing me.”

“I’ve heard about these pregnancy hormones, how your body just takes over and decides what it wants and how it, um...” Rosa trailed off, her eyes wide as Keily looked at her with narrowed eyes.

“I know. We’re all supposed to be crazy and monsters. I think that’s partially true lately.”

“At least you don’t have to go to court anymore.” Rosa changed the subject quickly, wisely.

“I know! I’m so glad it’s over.” Keily sighed. “I can’t believe Joe’s lawyer had a heart attack.”

“I can’t either. But the man’s a trooper, he got back to work two weeks later.”

“Yeah, just in time to see his client go to prison,” Keily smirked with glee. “Which is exactly where Joe deserves to be.”

“He does.” Rosa agreed and leaned over to get her glass of wine from the coffee table. “Sorry I can’t share the wine with you.”

“It’s fine, we’re celebrating Joe going to prison. One of us should have a drink, at least.”

“You’re meeting Logan later?” Rosa broached the subject, her eyes on the cheap wood panel across from the couch.

“Yes, for dinner.” Keily moaned and let her head fall against Rosa’s. They were sprawled, their heads touching, in the middle of the couch. “I don’t want to go but we have to go over some paperwork he wants me to sign.”

“What paperwork?” Rosa looked over at Keily, concerned.

“Just a trust fund for the kids or something like that. I told him we should wait for all of that, but he’s insisting.” Keily rolled her eyes before she went on. “I think he just wants to make sure they’re taken care of, but I also think he just wants to see me.”

“And that’s hard on you because you just want to jump his bones.” Rosa grinned, a laugh escaping even though she covered her mouth.

“I so want to jump his bones.” Keily agreed and laughed with her friend. “I know I shouldn’t, that it’s actually the very last thing I should do, but I can’t help it. He’s just so very good at it and I can’t forget that. Especially when he looks at me like he wants to fling me over his shoulder and carry me off to his bed. Or the backseat of his - whatever he wants to fling me over.”

“I bet you know exactly what the back of that car is like too.” Rosa’s grin was wicked this time and Keily lifted an eyebrow at her.

“I do indeed.” Keily let her eyes go wide as she remembered that last time in his car. It had been wild, edgy, and a little scary, but she’d been so turned on she could barely stand it. Which only made how much she wanted to get Logan naked now even worse. “I’m going to embarrass myself and do something stupid like attack him in my parking spot. The two old ladies are going to die from shock if they’re out walking their dogs this evening.”

“You know they will as soon as they see his car. Both of them will suddenly need to take their babies out for one more walk to get an eyeful of Logan.”