The Cowboy's One And Only (The Brothers 0f Thatcher Ranch Book 1) by April Murdock

Author:April Murdock [Murdock, April]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty, The Brothers 0f Thatcher Ranch
Publisher: Sweet River Publishing
Published: 2020-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Logan

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Logan’s side ached. The fog was slowly lifting even though he still didn’t quite understand what was happening.

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Memories pranced around, recent and far gone, all swirling around in his head like a giant tumbleweed, tangled and messy.

There had been a doctor with lash-less pea-green eyes and burnt red cheekbones. He leaned over Logan’s face in a strange blur, his voice harsh and loud. A more familiar voice piped through, making proclamations as he stayed hidden in the spice cupboard and said hello to the haze as it befell him. In this faded recollection, the entire family was there, cowering as teacups smashed against the wall. He saw her again but it was for the first time.

Her hair the same intensity as red swirls of the wild strawberry jam he put on his toast every morning, eyes so blue, they must have taken the sky’s pigment for themselves.

Lips curled into a sly, beam as if she knew something that Logan didn’t and oh, how he wanted to know.

She sat with her legs swinging haphazardly, leaning forward just enough to make him question what she was doing there—was she about to say hello or spring to her feet and walk away without a word?

And now…

“Frankie?” Logan murmured, his voice scratchy. He felt like he had swallowed sandpaper. Slowly, painfully, he managed to open his eyes.

I’m in a hospital.

“Hello to you too,” Chance chirped.

Logan closed his eyes.

“You! Get out,” Garrett snapped at the twin. Logan heard slight grumbling but the shuffle of feet as Chance moved to oblige.

“Logan, we’re sorry.” Chase spoke now. “I’m sorry. We should’ve never let you—"

Logan shook his head, strained his eyes back open.

“It’s not your fault.”

“If Chance wasn’t such an idiot—" Garrett began.

“My fault,” Logan muttered, even though his mouth was stuffed full of cotton.

Suddenly, he remembered the horse, the fall.

“My legs?” he whispered.

Sorrow wiped the rage clean off Garrett’s face. He looked away and the expression on his brother’s face told Logan everything he needed to know.

“The doctor doesn’t… he’s being conservative,” Garrett said falteringly. “But he still doesn’t know for sure.”

Logan nodded again, and yawned. The haze was settling back in, blocking out the reality again, as it always did when things got too tough.

“Thanks for… for…” he started but his eyes began to close and his mind was drifting away.

They still don’t know, he thought irrelevantly. No one knows but this isn’t the time.

The haze carried him along until time lost all meaning.

He floated through doctors who proclaimed, and nurses who chatted. Familiar voices spoke to him but he wasn’t there.

Logan wasn’t anywhere.

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