Second Chance-In the mist Book 1 novel Chapter 42

I loved the mornings I spent with myself on my beautifully decorated terrace. Sometimes I was in the company of my good old friend Samantha. Maybe it was time to reconnect with her. I really missed the woman. And she could give me the best advice on men. Because even though Logan had told me what he'd told me, I still couldn't command my heart. Something had happened to it since Dominic first kissed me. 

Now, by the time I was going to call Sam, I needed to see Logan urgently. We had a conversation on hold. 

"Hello, Logan? Can I see you?" I couldn't waste any more time on pointless things. I had to get to the bottom of what Logan wanted to talk to me about. From the moment he accepted my invitation to the actual meeting, it took only an hour. We met at a nearby pub. 

"Hey, what was the rush?" he asked as soon as I approached him. I couldn't believe he had started all this, and he was the one asking what the hurry was. He was unbelievable. 

"Are you serious right now?" I held his gaze for a few seconds, then sat down. He'd already ordered two coffees. He looked at me, stunned, as if he'd forgotten what we'd talked about the day before. Then, after a sip of coffee, he was another Logan. 

"Okay, okay, don't despair. I knew you'd call me. You know, neither of us could sit with our arms crossed. We had to find out something. We learned later that wild beast killed your fiancé. At first, I treated it as a murder since you disappeared. You were in the company of a man and you still are. Then someone from the agency saw you and told us you were fine but that you'd suffered an attack and they had killed Tom. Since nothing had appeared in the local newspapers, I went with murder, and that's how we figured it out." 

I sat and listened to him, but also felt the need to clarify a few points.

"Logan, I'm no longer in his company. Dominic just saved my life. And now you show up at his gala and tell me he's having less than normal connections with Tom? How does he know him? Tom was my fiancé; he didn't know Dominic. Or did he?" Maybe those were the questions I was most afraid of. It was all closing in around me, and I didn't like that at all. 

"If it had not been true, I would not have come. Besides, you know I went into the film business undercover. I met Dominic many years ago, and he never gave me anything bad to suspect. Until I told you that someone in the agency saw you with him. He saved you and he cured you. You were practically staying with him in his house." All of that was true, but I couldn't confess to Logan now that I had fallen in love with this man and was postponing my departure. "And I found it suspicious!" he finished, sipping his coffee at the last drop. 

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught him following me. I was sure the storm was about to break. For all I knew, I could confront him, letting him know that hiding things from me wasn't the smartest thing he'd ever done. I could have forgiven him anything and everything, but just the thought that he had such a dark and hurtful secret that intrigued me and kept it that way was something that I didn't think I could forgive. 

This was such a serious thing involving so many issues and he refused to tell me. He deliberately hid everything from me. So much sadness and regret nestled in my heart that if he continued to pursue me, he would surely wish he had never met me.

I was not a vindictive person, but this was about the lie, the agency that would probably suffer, and me falling in love like a total fool. Good lord, he could have said I really loved him. Because yes, I could now say I loved him. 

It really hurt me a lot the way he handled it, the fact that he hid everything from me, because in his judgment maybe I couldn't handle it. Or God knew what he was thinking.