Logan's Redemption by Cara Marsi

Author:Cara Marsi
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Cara Marsi
Published: 2011-09-26T12:39:38+00:00

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Cheap liquor and stale tobacco. Logan’s stomach clenched at the memories that assaulted him. Memories of a scared, skinny kid standing in a seedy bar just like this one. A kid coming to drag his drunken father home while his mother lay dying of cancer. Logan blinked to clear his vision, clouded by smoke and pain.

He spotted Candi in a booth at the other end of the room and headed toward her, ignoring the belligerent looks thrown his way. In no mood for a bar fight, he avoided eye contact with the other patrons.

Logan slid into a seat opposite Candi and she threw him a nervous smile.

“I was afraid you wouldn’t make it,” she said.

“You’re in trouble. I want to help.” He gave her a reassuring smile and glanced at his watch. He wanted and needed to be with Doriana. But he had a job to do.

“Got a hot date later?” Candi said, arching an eyebrow.

Logan laughed. “Hardly.”

A waitress whose time-worn face still held some semblance of youthful beauty came over to take his drink order.

“Ginger ale,” he said.

Candi wrapped her hand around her glass of beer and watched the waitress walk away. She leaned toward Logan. “You don’t drink? You really are too good to be true. The women at work get all hot and bothered whenever they see you. Are you an angel who looks like the devil?”

He waved a hand. “Don’t.”

“Modest too,” she said.

He held her gaze. “Now tell me what’s going on. And I want the truth.”

She took a sip of beer, peering at him over the rim of the tall glass. Setting the glass on the table, she released a deep sigh. “Some things are going down that scare me. I think I may have gotten in too deep.” Her voice trembled.

“What have you gotten yourself into, Candi?”

Her face pinked and she slid her gaze to the large clock hanging on the wall.

The waitress came with his drink, distracting him. Candi chugged her beer and ordered another. They sat in silence, Candi looking out over the bar, anywhere except at him, until the waitress brought her drink.

“Candi,” he said softly. “Look at me.”

She turned to him with eyes that had hardened to blue granite. The fear and vulnerability that had shadowed them a few minutes ago had disappeared.

A chill passed over Logan. Candi was a survivor. They had that in common. She put on different faces, but he believed she was straight with him. Maybe he didn’t know her as well as he thought. He shifted in his seat. She needed his help. And he needed her information.

“Is it Bryce James?” he asked.

Shock registered on Candi’s pretty face. She coughed on the beer she just sipped. “How do you know about Bryce?” Her eyes glittered and her voice held a brittle, defiant tone.

“How I know is not important,” he said. “I can help you. You don’t owe him anything. Has he gotten you involved in something illegal?”

Sadness crossed her features for a fleeting instant before a calculating hardness took over.

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