Page 37 of Edge of Forever

Her gaze flitted away until he shook her hands. “We’re going far away from people to get you better. We’re going to make sure she can’t hurt our people anymore while Marcus and his crew try to find a way to put an end to this.”

She nodded slowly, then more emphatically.

He linked their fingers and walked out of the hospital into the sunshine. To where his band surrounded the truck and played with Fiona.

Morgan and Julian were running up and down the aisle with her, tossing a Frisbee. When Fiona took Julian out at the ankles and stole the Frisbee, Logan couldn’t stop the quick chuckle.

The chorus of shouts of Izzy’s name and the crush of men that came her way had her backing up a step before accepting the closeness.

“We had to say goodbye,” Christian said as he pressed a quick kiss to her cheek. “We’ll miss you guys.”

Her eyes swam again as Julian and Emerson sandwich-hugged her. She winced, but didn’t pull back.

She seemed to enjoy their touch.

Not his.

The hurt pried under his skin and left behind dents, but he refused to show it. He didn’t even growl at Zeke when he dragged her face into his chest. Cody wiggled between them until she gingerly lowered herself to scratch his ears. She stuck her face into the heavy fur of his neck and breathed deep.

Morgan helped her to her feet and brushed a kiss over her forehead before walking away without a word. He wasn’t very good with farewells, but had made sure to make an exception for Isabella since the beginning.

Finally everyone was gone except Fiona. Izzy frowned at him then nodded to the guys. Logan gave her a small smile. “She’s yours.”

Her eyes went wide as she immediately sat on the pavement beside the warm auburn and white-haired dog. Fiona whined and paced around her, bumping her shoulder then her neck and firmly nudging her way under Izzy’s arm.

The pink tongue swiped up Izzy’s face and a small chuffing laugh escaped her lips.

“I’d like to say she’s ours, but I know she’s yours already.”

She burrowed her face in the dog’s neck and Fiona proceeded to crawl into her lap until her head was resting on Izzy’s chest and her whimpers made people turn to look.

Logan held a hand out to her. “Yep. Time to go.”

She hesitantly placed her hand in his.

The dog leaped and barked as she circled them. He opened the door to the backseat. “In.” Fiona snapped to attention, barked once, and then leaped in. She took up the entire backseat as she sprawled out, panting with a huge smile on her face.

“Ready to go?”

Izzy sighed and nodded. He moved to help her inside but she held her hand up.

At least that part was like his girl.

It was nice to see at least a flash of her.

Eighteen

Bella woke with her cheek resting against the door. The sun had long set and they were on a very dark road in the middle of nowhere. At least that’s how it seemed. She used the cover of night to look at Logan.

She hadn’t been able to stand to look at him for days now. He’d become everything she never knew she wanted. A serious man, with no edge—that had been the plan. Then one moment with him in a wine-soaked evening and she’d been changed. She may not have owned up to it that night, but she couldn’t lie to herself now.

It had taken one night to see just how much her plan had sucked. She’d denied herself the fun and thrill of Logan and then he’d gotten under her skin. She’d seen more than the rockstar face of Logan King and saw the sadness, saw the man longing to connect with someone.

She’d fallen for that man.

Now she wondered if she rewound time to that night—could she have just treated him as a one-night-stand? Could she have gotten the wild out of her system and then gotten back to the plan at hand?

Walked away from him with a good memory and a level head, then found the stable guy that she was supposed to be with. Would he have walked out of her life with his problems, and the woman that was hell bent on destroying him?

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