Only Mia (Cottonwood Falls Shorts Book 1) by Oona Ryda

Author:Oona Ryda [Ryda, Oona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lovestruck Romance
Published: 2022-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

MIA

Last week, I read my horoscope in one of the tabloids and I’ve regretted it ever since. It said I’m cursed with bad luck. Forever.

Okay, it didn’t say forever, but I read between the lines.

As I lay in the dark staring at the ceiling, I feel the weight of that curse.

What do I do now? Continue lying to Logan? Is that fair to Emma?

I kept quiet about her for a good reason and with good intentions, and I don’t regret it. But that reason no longer exists.

I don’t want Logan’s money. I don’t want anything from him, but is it fair of me at this point to continue making choices that affect everyone? What if Logan wants to be in Emma’s life? What if he wants to support her? Emma deserves that. And if he doesn’t…

I have to tell Logan before he leaves for Nashville. I’ll wait until after the wedding then tell him.

If he hates me, fine.

If he wants nothing to do with Emma, fine.

If he wants to be in her life, then I’ll have to share her.

I hate the thought of sharing her, but I want what’s best for Emma.

Sleep is a pipedream at this point. Especially with Logan in the next room.

It’s been over an hour. He must be sawing logs by now. A smile curls my lips as I think about him scaling the fire escape to “rescue me from myself.”

Rolling out of bed, I tiptoe into the living room to find him asleep on the couch. His breathing is shallow and worry lines crease his brow.

He’s bigger now, more muscular, but still as handsome as he was the summer night I snuck out my bedroom window to go to my spot by the waterfall and learned it was Logan’s spot too.

He was already there with his guitar when I sat next to him.

I’d crushed on my best friend’s brother forever but didn’t stand a chance with dweeby boys my own age, much less a talented, handsome, older boy whom all the girls wanted. Typical me would have run as soon as I saw him, but I’d had a crap night.

My uber-strict, ultra-religious parents picked me up from the police station after a party Lily convinced me to attend got raided. When my parents learned that not only were boys present, but there’d been alcohol, my father beat me with a belt while my mother read bible verses and called me Jezebel. Then they had Pastor Owens lecture me about sins of immorality and temptations of the flesh.

Like a band-aid, Logan’s music soothed me that night. We met frequently after that. He played music or we just talked. When the weather turned, we hung out in his car and talked—about everything. I told him about my dream of getting a law degree and helping impoverished victims and he told me about wanting to share his music with the world.

As I lean over Logan, assessing his similarities to Emma, a longing reopens and that part of

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