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Chapter 13
Emily
Iwas in the middle of reading the next morning when a booming knock sounded at my door, the rapping loud and sudden enough to make me nearly spill my coffee. I gasped, turning around ready to scold whoever had given me such a scare.
I didn’t have a chance. The door opened and Logan entered, a leather briefcase thrown over his shoulder.
“Morning,” he said.
I sat stunned, setting down my book and regarding him with an expression of disbelief.
“I get that you’re probably a little out of practice with these sorts of things, but you have to know that it’s not OKat allto barge into a woman’s room like that. Don’t tell me you do this with Marianne?”
He shrugged. “She’s never in her bedroom with the door shut.”
“Well, next time when you knock, wait for me to say something. What if I’d been in the middle of changing?”
As soon as I spoke the words, the idea of Logan coming into my room while I was in a state of undress occurred to me. To mysurprise, it didn’t make me feel weird or uncomfortable. Quite the opposite, actually.
“Fine. I’ll wait next time.” His voice was tinged with irritation, and I could tell from his tone that Logan was in normal form. “Anyway, we don’t have time for questions of etiquette. There are important matters we need to discuss.”
“Important matters? Like what?”
He slipped off the briefcase he’d brought it, setting it down onto the bed.
“I have something for you.”
“What kind of something?”
He didn’t make me wait long. Logan opened the metal clasps of the briefcase before reaching inside and taking out another bag, this one white and plastic.
“Forgive me if I didn’t go to the trouble of giftwrapping it. Figured you wouldn’t mind.”
Logan prepared to set the bag onto my desk but saw that my book was in the way. He craned his neck, checking out the cover. A surge of embarrassment ran through me as I realized that the cover, along with the title of “Embrace of the Vampire Prince,” gave the book away as YA romance.
“What’re you reading?”
I flashed him a wry smirk as I closed the book and set it aside. “Haven’t you invaded my privacy enough for one day?”
He let out an amused sort. “Fair enough.”
Logan set the bag down and I was able to make out the word ‘Apple.’ Curious, I reached inside and grasped the box within. I pulled it out slowly, seeing that it was a laptop.
“What is this?” The words came out of my mouth dumbly.
“There’s a picture of it on the box,” he said.
I pursed my lips. “I see that. But what’s it for?”
“You’re a writer, correct?”
“I am. How did you—” I stopped myself before finishing the question. No doubt he’d gotten the information from Marianne.
“A certain someone who isn’t good at keeping information to herself. I hope you’re not upset with her.”
“No, not at all. But why did you buy this?”
“I figured that it’d be a lot easier to do your work on this instead of writing by hand, assuming that’s what you do.”
