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“Because I love her.”

I don’t blink.

“I need to know she has someone with her who makes her feel good. So…Dr. Marsh.Will you be with her today?”

Ella exhales, then nods once. “Yes. Just at her house. Call it a therapy session.” She chuckles, light but not careless.

I step aside. “Well. Don’t let me keep you.”

She slips past, Logan’s eyes following her until she’s out the door.

I turn to him. “How long?”

He blinks, irritation quick and shallow. “What are you talking about?”

“You and the good doctor.”

Logan’s jaw tightens. “There’s nothing going on.”

“Doesn’t mean there won’t be.” I lift my chin toward the door. “She’s carrying something behind those eyes. Find it. Fix it. That’s your way in.”

Logan doesn’t answer, just glances toward the door Ella slipped through.

I follow his line of sight, the corner of my mouth tugging. I know that look, like a man already lost,already hers.

Same look I wear for Olivia.

I leave him to it.

I have my own woman to watch.

Chapter forty-eight

Olivia

Monday

I’m still in bed.

Still in yesterday’s clothes. Still in the same spot I crumpled into last night after he kissed me like goodbye and left.

The curtains are open because I can’t help it.

Because I keep looking.

A soft knock. Then the creak of the door.

“Liv?” Ella’s voice floats in, careful, gentle.

I don’t move.

She pads in anyway, loose strands from her neat bun tucked behind her ears, cashmere sweater sleeves too long, but folded. She smells like chamomile and that clean perfume I always forget the name of.

“You want to catch a movie? Or go walk the town? Something brainless?”

I shake my head into the pillow.

Ella sighs and crosses to the bed. Her eyes sweep over me and land on my hand.

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