*Hadley* I am awakened by Logan rubbing his nose along my jaw and his warm breath hitting my face. “Are you awake bubbles ?” “Hmm almost”. I mumble, my whole body feels heavy and relaxed ... honestly everything just feels perfect and I want to just stay in this warm happy moment. “You don’t look awake darling”. He chuckles softly, a big warm hand slipping up to rest on my stomach under the duvet. “You do look totally cute though”. I reach out blindly, letting my hand slide up his chest, caress his neck and come to rest on his cheek. “And you are amazing ... I just feel too good right now to want to get up”. “We don't have to get up, we are all alone and I already let the dogs out while you were sleeping”. He leans down and kisses me softly, then mumble against my lips. “We can snuggle up ... watch a movie or just ... talk”. “I’d like that, a lot”. I mumble back, before kissing him softly. Then my mouth moves to kiss and nibble down his neck, breathing in his scent. “Ouch, did y
Chapter 19 2 days later *Logan* I suddenly get that feeling -.. you know that someone is watching you ... so I turn and realise that Jax, AJ and Marshall are all standing in the doorway, staring at me. I turn off the vacuum cleaner and smile at them. “Hey guy, how was the trip ?” “You are vacuuming ?” AJ says, staring at the machine in my hand. “And he is wearing clean clothes”. Marshall scratches his neck. Jax gives me a look over. “And he has a hickey on his neck and is smiling like an idiot ... you two better have kept it to your bed”. I lift my finger, breathing in to say something, then stop myself trying to keep in the giggle. “A gentleman never tells ... we have watched Netflix all weekend”. “Yeah everything needs to be ... cleaned, with like ... no let’s just burn the place”. Jax shakes his head. “Where is she by the way ?” AJ looks around the room. “Logan, you did not like ... break her or something”. I stare at him. “Break her ? What the l.. what ?” He just gives
3 days later *Logan* “Sit down Logan ... you are stressing everyone”. Jax says pointing to the couch. “No one is going to hurt her”. “What if they ... if she gets upset ? If they ask her something bad, about me or about Ryan ?” I sit down, but feel how my food kinda bounces. Jax sighs. “She can handle herself, Hadley is a strong girl ...”. “Could we ... not call her a girl? It kinda makes her seem so young”. I mumble cutting him off. “... and she has Marshall with her”. He gives me a look. “Logan ... She is young, you have to come to terms with that. There is nothing wrong in your relationship, but if you want others to accept it, you need to first”. I breathe in slowly, dammit he is right. She needs me to be there fully and to be that I need to stop obsessing about the age thing. How do I expect others to be okay with it if I am not even okay with it myself ? “You are right Jax”. I nod. “We are both adults, we love each other and we have chosen to be together ... it is no on
4 days later *Hadley* “I don't like that host ... she seems to be hell bent on making him look bad”. I am squeezing AJ's hand, as we are watching Logan do a local evening talk show. Since my talk show appearance I have almost gotten only positive responses, but half of those still feel that Logan is too old and just using me, they seem to blame him and feel oh so sorry for me … the other half love us together, and keep telling me how lucky I am. I know the negativity hurts Logan, but he tries not to show it, especially not to me. “Yeah, she seems to be out for him ... he shouldn’t have gone on that show”. Jax mumbles biting his thumb. I shake my head. I wish he hadn’t said yes. But he didn’t want to go all the way to New York or LA and he had felt it was time he went public too and addressed some of the rumours and accusations. I just hate seeing him being pushed like this. “So Logan ... you wasted no time seducing Hadley after she finally got out of Ryan’s grasp ... “. The hos
*Hadley* I watch Jax grow pale as he talks on the phone, for some reason it makes my stomach knot up and I just know something bad has happened. As soon as he moves the phone from his ear I am over him. “Jax, what is it .. it’s Logan right ?” “Yeah”. He swallows hard as he nods. “Shit ! It seems he was attacked by three guys in the parking lot … he was trying to defend someone … he got beaten pretty badly”. “Was that him calling ? Do we need to pick him up somewhere ?” I feel panic rise inside and an instant need to hold Logan or to be in his arms. Jax breathes out slowly, his eyes shifting to AJ and then back to me. “Hadley, it wasn’t Logan ... he ... he can’t call ...”. A weird sound escapes his throat and I realise it's a sob. “It’s very bad sweetie, he is in a coma”. “No ...”. The panic explodes through my mouth in the form of hyperventilating gasps. “We need to go, I need to see him”. AJ instantly is beside me, holding me, which is good, because elseway I would probably
*Hadley* “Are you okay sweetie ? You want me to take you outside ?” AJ asks softly. He has picked me up and is currently sitting on a chair with me on his lap, my face buried in his shoulder. I shake my head, it had just been too much seeing Logan like that, with all the tubes and wires that are attached to him, his face, all battered, swollen and badly bruised. “I just ... too much ... I am okay now”. “Tell me if it gets too ... hard, no one will blame you for stepping outside for a moment”. He says softly. I lift my head and slowly turn it, shit I had not been able to imagine this. I mean he is almost unrecognizable. How could anyone hurt him like this, my sweet and warm hearted Logan ? It makes no sense. A doctor comes in and Marshall goes to shake his hand, explaining who everyone is and then asking. “So, what are we looking at ... how bad is it ?” “We managed to stop the bleeding from his liver and kidney, and the collapsed lung is functioning again. There are a couple of
*Logan* I remember the pain ... then darkness and I wonder if I am dead ... it is warm and nice, and suddenly I realize I am wandering through a sunny wheat field. My fingers are slowly running through the plants. This doesn’t look like Texas, more like ... Iowa or something, or I guess, even though I am not sure. But then I remember her Hadley. I need to find Hadley, my mate, my love and I start desperately searching for a way out of the field, but it seems to just go on forever. The wind is picking up and clouds gathering on the blue skies ... like nature itself is angry with me for wanting to leave. I don't know what it is or why, but I feel like something is coming ... not really like evil, but something I do not want to meet with, so I start walking faster and faster until I am running, feeling chased by ... what ... the wind, a feeling. Am I going crazy here ? My mind is trying to figure out what happened. I had been doing that interview, and it had honestly been rather h
*Logan* The moment I step through the door, the world shifts beneath my feet, and I find myself standing in a dense, misty forest. I turn around but the door is gone, and I wonder if that believe I am safe from whatever it is that is coming. I doubt it. The air is cool and damp, a stark contrast to the warm wheat field I have just left behind. The trees tower over me, ancient and whispering secrets in a language I cannot understand. It's both eerie and beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale, and I can't help but feel that Hadley would love it here, with her siren's heart that beats in tune with the mystical. I start walking, my feet moving of their own accord on a path covered in a carpet of moss and fallen leaves. It feels like I'm being guided, drawn forward by an invisible thread tied around my heart. I'm searching for Hadley, even though I know she isn’t here, but there's also something else, an underlying mission I can't quite grasp. The forest grows darker, the mist t