Page 66 of Because of Logan

“Give me a minute,” I call to him as I make my way to the bathroom.

He waits for me, sitting on the bed. I walk to him and stand between his legs. Holding his face, I kiss him. He smiles into the kiss. His hands reach under the long enough to be a dress T-shirt I’m wearing and squeeze my ass. I don’t feel the need to get dressed. I’m comfortable and at ease around Logan.

“Come, I’ll make us breakfast.”

“Did you hear from your sister?”

“Yes, she texted me. She’s on her way home now.”

Logan sits at the counter with a cup of coffee and watches me gather things to make us breakfast. The front door opens and River comes in. She’s in sweats and a hoodie. I recognize Becca’s clothing. They’re small on River, as Becca is closer to my height and size than River’s. She drops a bag and her heels on the floor as she walks into the kitchen.

“How’s Becca?”

“Becca... you know how she gets. Becca is being extra Becca lately.”

I don’t really know how Becca gets. River is good at keeping secrets, her own and others’. What I do know of Becca is what I’ve witnessed and whatever gossip I heard by accident. Other people talking. Not River.

She sits at the counter next to Logan. Every so often, my old doubts show their ugly little heads. I give her a coffee and take a sip of my own.

“Hey, how’s everything?”

She watches us, searching for signs of distress.

“Everything is good, River. We talked. I told Logan everything about what happened with Blake.”

“Everything?”

“Everything. Except what you did to scare him off, because I still don’t know what you did.”

“Oh, that.”

She takes a sip of her coffee and smirks over the cup. She’s lost in thought.

“Yeah, that was kind of crazy. It was funny, though.”

“What happened?”

Both Logan and I ask at the same time.

“You really want to know?”

“River! Tell me now. You’ve been holding out for years. There has to be a statute of limitations on secrets of revenge against a sister’s exes.”

“Okay.” She sighs.

“That day, after everything that happened, you fell asleep. Before Mom and Dad came home, I called Doctor Taylor.”

I interrupt River to explain to Logan what she meant. “Doctor Taylor is a vet. He cares for our animals and most of the farm animals around Apple Hill.”

River picks up where she stopped.

“I asked Doctor Taylor if he’d have any geldings in the next couple of days. And luckily for me, he had a couple of colts to geld Monday morning at the Andersons’.”

I look at Logan and explain.

“The Andersons are the next farm over. Their land abuts ours.”

“Geldings?” Logan asks.

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