Logan's Promise by Nancy Howard

Author:Nancy Howard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Fiction, The Old West
Publisher: Nancy Howard
Published: 2020-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

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A week has passed since the shooting with Hogg and his gang happened, as Folsom grapples with trying to get back to normal. Gavin has survived, but has not regained consciousness. He's still in a coma and the doc has told Logan he doesn't know when, or if, he’ll wake up. She sets patiently by his bedside this evening, something she's done every evening since the shooting.

John is at home with Catherine, and recovering and getting better.

Logan now finds herself coming and going, not getting much sleep at all. She's exhausted. She's working full time running Sanderson's Hill, then she makes the forty-five minute ride to Folsom every evening to be with Gavin. She often stays so late that she sleeps on the floor next to his bed, never going home, just as she has done last night.

She's sitting in a chair when Doc Burroughs, who lives upstairs, enters Gavin's room. He pulls the other chair in the room over to her, and sits down, “Logan I want you to know there's been no change in his condition. I just don't know.” he pauses. “I wonder now if he will ever regain consciousness, It's been more than a week.”

“What are you trying to tell me doc?” She asks, with trepidation in her voice.

“Well, what I'm saying is he may stay this way for months on end, Logan. Then he might just pass away, or again, he may still wake up. Like I said, I don't know. He's been through a hell of a lot, and right now the only thing that's keeping him alive, is he's so damn young and strong. But eventually that, too, will not be enough to keep him alive. So, what I will say to you, and you can do as you like, I know you will anyway. Go home, and if there is any change at all in his condition, in anyway. I'll find Billy Halladay and have him come out to the ranch to get you.”

Logan sets for a second, and shakes her head.

“You're tired girl. You're on empty—running the ranch and then coming in here and staying with him night after night, and not going home and getting proper rest yourself. Look dear, I know how much you love him. Hell the whole town knows that. But Bye-God I'm worried about you, too, just as John and Catherine are. They've told me several times and wanted me to talk to you. You know it ain't doing yourself, or him any good with you settin' here. And you bein' here all the time ain't gonna help one damn bit in making him wake up. Now go home and get some rest Logan, before you keel over. And I have you in here, because you've had a nervous breakdown.

Logan shakes her head okay, choosing not to argue. She’s to tired to do that anyway. She says nothing and gets up and leaves. Going out the door, and mounting Warrior for the long ride home. She knows the doc is right that’s why she didn’t argue with him.

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