Building Bridges by Lia Fairchild

Author:Lia Fairchild [Fairchild, Lia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Logan

In the darkness, I shudder from the cold, sweat painting my skin. I’ve finally slowed my breathing after waking with a scream caught in my throat. I’m grateful I don’t call out any more. That was before I moved in here, and I’d hate to scare the kids. Though some things have gotten better with time, I still feel the lost, lurking memories fighting to break from the shadows. I dread that day. All I want is to keep the good memories intact and keep the flashes of horror buried in my subconscious. My friends…my brothers…are gone, and I just want to remember them during our best days. Not our worst.

I drift off again and sometime later, I feel a gentle shaking on my shoulder and blink awake to the blurry dimness of my room. Figuring it is still too early to get up, I flip over to face the wall.

“Logan,” a whispered voice says behind me.

At first, I ignore it, hoping it will just go away.

This time the whisper comes with another shoulder shake. “Logan, come on.”

“Okay,” I grumble. I scoot to the edge, assuming some kid in this house had a nightmare and this is always their destination.

I feel the covers being pulled from my body, and I flip back over to give someone an earful. My brothers, Justice and Ryder, are standing there, staring down at me. “Dangerous territory,” I grumble. They know better than to wake me at, whatever the hell time this is. Startling me from a sleep is a risky endeavor. I’ve never hurt any of them, but Justice once witnessed a mild panic attack I’m sure he could have done without. And at this moment, panic hits me for a different reason. I quickly sit upright. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothin’.” Justice grabs my sweatpants from the floor and chucks them at my chest. “Get dressed.”

Before I can give them the third degree, Ryder starts jumping up and down like he’s using an invisible jump rope. “It’s training time, Lo. Come on. You promised.”

“I promised this? You waking me up at”—I pick up my phone to check the time—“you’ve got to be kidding me. And you do realize it’s a Saturday, right?”

“I told you, man,” Justice says to Ryder, smacking him in the arm.

Ryder sits next to me on the bed. “We have to step up your workouts if you’re going to qualify in regionals.” Even in the dim lighting, I can see the pleading in his eyes. It is at this moment, I realize how much this means to him. I guess I thought it was sort of a fantasy thing, and the idea would just fade away. Yeah, the workouts are great and aren’t much more than I was doing in the two years of hard-core physical punishment I gave myself after the standard PT. But now the shit is getting real. Especially if Justice is on board.

I hold my fist out for him to bump. “What’s the plan, Ry?”

Ryder’s lips curve up

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