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“That’s okay. I didn’t exactly make a smooth entrance. Lucy.”
As we shake hands, I spot the question in her eyes.
“My Dad,” I tell her before she can ask. “He was walking to the store and…your group, Never Alone, I mean….”
I’m getting flustered and finding it difficult to speak for no reason.
No reason at all.
And then he walks across the room, into my line of sight, and I almost laugh at how wrong I am.
I can’t speak because of his muscled forearms and the messiness of his silver hair from running his hands through it.
It’s not difficult to see how he’s able to date so many supermodels and actresses. There are so many women who are much prettier and physically attractive than me.
“Yes?” Trixie says patiently.
“They paid for the lawyer who put my dad’s killer in jail,” I tell her. “Thank you. Really. It means a lot,” I add.
Trixie nods. “I understand. That’s how I started in the group. My husband.”
“I’m so sorry.”
She sighs. “Yes, so am I. But we can help others. Each other. I think that’s the best way to honor his memory.”
“I agree.”
“Well….” She waves a hand over to a table in the corner, onto which people are loading plates and soda. “It’s not much, but it helps fuel the community spirit. Will you stay for something to eat?”
A laugh draws my eye. It’s Logan, talking with two men. One of them laughs for a couple more moments, then grins up at Logan.
Everybody here is looking up at him. He towers over us all, huge and wide-shouldered and completely unattainable.
“Excuse me,” Trixie says when her phone starts to ring.
I stay where I am, not really sure what to do when two ladies approach me. They’re a friendly older couple, probably around the same age Mom would’ve been if she was still here.
For a while, I lose myself in conversation, listening to their story and telling mine.
But there’s no way to deny the effect Logan’s having on me, just by being here, by making others smile and laugh.
It makes me think of him making me smile, making me laugh. Just by being him, he’s made me feel more in a few minutes than I have felt in the past eight months.
Am I going to speak with him at some point?
If I do, what the heck am I going to say?
I know notwhatto say.
“Hey, Logan Locke, I’ve got a mega crush on you, and I was wondering if you want to make all my wildest dreams come true.”
Yeah.
I’m definitelynotgoing to start with that.
CHAPTERFOUR
Logan
