Beautiful Dead by Eden Maguire

Author:Eden Maguire [MAGUIRE, EDEN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781402268250
Publisher: Sourcebooks

I was still shaking when I reached home and found that Laura and Jim were out at work. I had the house to myself and plenty of time to regret what I’d just done. I took deep breaths, paced from room to room, tried to tell myself that Kyle hadn’t recognized me after all.

“Darina?” Logan said, stepping onto the porch and peering in through the open kitchen window.

I jumped. “Don’t creep up on me like that!” I yelled.

“I didn’t creep—I knocked on the door. You didn’t answer.”

“Maybe I chose not to,” I pointed out. “What do you want, Logan?”

“I came to apologize. I know it looked like I was laughing at you, but I wasn’t.”

“When? What are you talking about?”

“Earlier, with Hannah. I worked it through afterward. It wasn’t what you thought.”

“So you know what I’m thinking again?” I sighed, but inside I was glad for once for Logan’s visit. “Come in, tell me about it.”

He stooped as he came through the door, suddenly seeming taller than I’d realized and too big for our wooden kitchen chairs. “Maybe Hannah—she might want it to be the way you saw it, her and me, you know—but it’s so not true.”

“Did what you just said actually make sense?” I queried. “Or is this some kind of riddle?”

“Hannah and I are not an item,” he announced after he’d drawn a deep breath. “She asked me to go to the movies tonight but I turned her down.”

“And you needed to tell me?” I arched an eyebrow. “Listen, Logan, feel free to go to the movies with Hannah any time you like.”

He frowned, leaned back on the flimsy chair, looked up at the ceiling. “I hate what’s happened between us lately,” he told me. “When did we get into these games?”

It was my turn to take a breath. The way he looked at me, with hurt in his eyes, got through to me. “When I fell in love with Phoenix?” I suggested. “I’m serious. Ever since then, things went wrong for you.”

Slowly Logan let the front chair legs touch the ground. He nodded. “You’re right; it’s true.”

“I can’t help you. It happened. I loved—love Phoenix more than the world. You have to let me go.” I leaned across the table and touched his hand. “Let me go, Logan, and we can be friends again.”

He nodded just as Laura came home from work, then seized the opportunity to leave.

“Logan looked sad,” Laura remarked. She wore the jaded, worn-out expression she always had after a day selling cutrate clothes in the mall.

“We’re all sad,” I told her, and that was enough to shut her up.

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