Page 71 of The Lost and the Found

Hayden

It waslate by the time we got home. So late, I barely had the energy to ready myself for bed. I took off all my clothes and collapsed onto his bed under the warm blankets.

I was dead to the world before my head even hit the pillow.

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We didn’t talk muchin the bathroom in the morning after as we brushed our teeth. Like the morning before, Logan made me breakfast and, as promised, he let me finish my homework and reading assignments before he threw my coat at me with a barely refrained smile, putting on his shoes.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” I asked for what seemed like the billionth time. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, but I also didn’t want to be the reason he needed to bring his car into shop.

He tugged at my hair playfully. “Of course. Stop worrying. I won’t let anything happen to you in that car.”

That wasn’t what I was worried about, but now that he’d mentioned it, I was beginning to worry about that as well. “Oh, my God. What if I get into an accident?”

Logan smiled indulgently at me. “You won’t.”

“How do you know? I could be careful, but not everyone on the road is going to be looking out for me.”

The world didn’t care that I was operating a two-ton bomb for the first time.

“We’ll start off slow. I won’t let you get onto the street until I’m sure you’re ready.”

“Where will we be driving?” I asked.

“A parking lot. I know a place. It used to be a grocery market a couple of years back before the owners sold the land. Now it’s pretty desolate. It’s perfect.”

I let out a sigh, though I still wasn't convinced. There were still streetlights and stuff, right? I didn’t know. Why didn’t I pay more attention to those kinds of things before?

Logan kissed me then, probably to distract me from my musings. His lips came at me quickly, and I didn’t have time to close my mouth. Logan swirled his tongue and I moaned, my hand automatically wrapping around his neck, pulling him closer. I didn’t think there would ever be a time when I wouldn’t react to Logan like this.

There was no other way around it. The electrical charge between us was insane. I was sure this was what most called chemistry. Only this felt so much more than that. It felt beyond my own comprehension.

And I never wanted to let him go.

Logan pulled away and we were both breathing noticeably hard. “What was that?”

He swiped his thumb across my bottom lip, and I resisted the urge to close my eyes. “That was me distracting you.”

“Well, it worked.”

He leaned down and placed a quick kiss on the corner of my lips. “Good. You know I would never intentionally hurt you, right?”

I sagged against him. I supposed a small part of me always knew it. That as big as Logan was, he was infinitely gentle with me.

I nodded.

“It might be too soon, but I want you to trust me, Hayden. But for now, trust me to not let anything happen to you on that road.”

I nodded against his chest, inhaling deeply. I loved the way he smelled. Fresh and comforting. Not strong, but its impact on me was powerful.

I’d never experienced anything like how I felt when I was in his arms.No words described how safe and secure he made me feel—something I hadn’t felt in a very, very long time.

“I do trust you,” I said, laying my heart out for him. I was making myself vulnerable, I knew that, but I couldn’t even bring myself to care. I nodded, mostly to myself. “I’m ready.”

His smile was endearing and, if I could have, I would have captured this moment. Captured that smile and the strong feeling that such a simple thing could evoke from me.

“Good.” He kissed my nose, and I closed my eyes, savoring even the smallest contact from him. God, I was pathetic.

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