Page 24 of That Last Secret
She scoffs. “No, ma’am. His eyes were downright murderous, and I’d bet money that it was because you were dancing with Mason.”
I shouldn’t care.
Ireallyshouldn’t care.
But I do.
I thought about Logan in the past, more than I would like to admit. I wanted to flirt with him and have him flirt back. I used to dream about how his lips would taste on mine or how his arms would feel wrapped around me. However, at that time, I was just an eighteen-year-old girl with a mind full of fantasies about a man eight years older than me that I had no business fantasizing over.
“You’d probably lose that bet.” I smirk.
“No way. I think he has feelings for you.” She waggles her eyebrows at me.
“You truly have the most delusional mind I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing,” I deadpan.
“Sometimes being delusional keeps me sane.” Brooke laughs. “But if I’m being rational here, I’d tell you Logan probably has a giant stick up his ass. You should ask him why he’s so angry withyou all the time. And then you can tell him to get the fuck over it.”
I chuckle as I take a bite of my breakfast sandwich.
“Oryoucan fuck him,” she says so casually with a shrug.
I toss my crumpled-up napkin at her. “Brooke!”
“See? Delusional. Also, maybe I’m still drunk. Not sure. But…” She draws out the word before pausing to sip her coffee. “As a witness to the incident in the coffee shop and at the bar last night, something has definitely changed with him. But I don’t know him well enough to know for sure.”
She’s not wrong. Somethinghaschanged.
And just like her, I’m struggling to figure out what that is. When I’m alone with my thoughts at night, I often think about that, but no solid reasoning ever comes up.
Yet, what if she’s right? What if hedoeshave feelings for me? Would I want to pursue something with Logan? Would I want to open myself up to potential heartbreak?
“I see your brain spinning. Talk to me,” Brooke says.
“Want the truth?”
“Duh.”
“I used to have the biggest crush on Logan.”
She gasps and nearly chokes on her sandwich. “What! How am I just learning about this now?” She stands from the chair and rounds the kitchen island. “This is huge. This changes everything.”
“It changes nothing.”
“Does he know?”
I shake my head. “Hell no. Could you imagine what my brothers would think or say about it? I never told anyone until right now. Until you.”
She stands still before me, and now it’s my turn to see the wheels in her head spinning. But this could be a terrible thing when it comes to how Brooke thinks.
“I think you need to tell him.”
Like I said, it’s a terrible thing.
I aggressively shake my head from side to side. “Nope. No. Never happening.” I turn to walk away from her.
“Em,” Brooke says, walking over to me and placing two hands on my shoulders. “After seeing the way he is with you, there’s definitely something buzzing in the air around you two. Call it sexual chemistry, attraction, whatever.”
“We need to get you some water.”