Page 29 of The Lost and the Found

“You guys are too sweet for my taste.”

“Oh, please, I can’t wait until you fall in love, Logan. Then we’ll see who the sweet one is,” Olivia said.

“Ah, no. Sorry to disappoint, sweetheart, but I don’t think I will ever fall in love,” I told her, yet my heart pounded somewhat fiercely in my chest after that.

Hayden’s blue eyes entered, unbidden, into my mind, and I had to work hard to keep my face from showing even the slightest hint of the distress I was feeling.

“We’ll see,” Olivia said cryptically. “I’m going to put on a pot of coffee. Why don’t you guys move to the living room to talk?”

I pulled her back before she could get far and, ignoring the slight growl coming from Mason, looked at Olivia.

“Ah, sorry, sweetheart. I was just kidding about the coffee. I have somewhere I need to be soon, and I can’t be late. How about a raincheck, yeah?”

“Oh, where are you going?” she asked.

“Just some personal stuff I have to take care of.” I tugged on her long brown hair affectionately before turning Mason, who was looking at me with a small frown, pulling his eyebrows together.

I shook my head.

I didn’t want to get into anything about Hayden with him. Mason and Gage knew I had been looking for some girl my entire life, and they only knew the bare minimum of why I was searching for her in the first place. They didn’t know how much she had come to mean to me, and I didn’t want to examine too closely on how that had come to be.

“Look that over,” I said to Mason, motioning to the documents. “We’ll talk tomorrow morning, yeah?”

He nodded. “Yeah. See you then.”

I shot another small smile Olivia’s way before I made my way out, wondering why my heart felt so heavy all of a sudden, especially after seeing the way Mason and Olivia interacted with each other.

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