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“Okay, I rong about her I rong to be so tough on you, too It’s my fault you’re so hard”

A pang of guilt had hit Logan as he’d run his hand through his rumpled, chocolate-brown hair

“I was too hard on Jake, too”

“Maybe you’re being too difficult on yourself”

“I’d like to see Jake again before I die”

“You’re not going to die…not anytime soon”

“Cici says the sa better every day She thinks maybe I could stay here instead of…” His voice trailed away

The randfather’s voice had convinced Logan he had to check on his grandfather at once Since his stroke, his grandfather had gone froy, depressed person Logan barely knew This hy Logan had decided his grandfather couldn’t live independently at Belle Rose any longer and needed to beafter

Unfortunately, the dense forest with its vines and wild vegetation was so thick beneath the brooding sky, Logan was almost past the faatepost At the last ht too fast and skidded No sooner had he righted the car than he saw the pillared mansion at the end of the oak alley As always, the ancient holow in the slanting sunlight see his heart as no other place could

How could he blame Grandpère, who’d beco illness, for wanting to stay here? Logan remembered the first ti hi for several hours

Cici has no business convincing the oldbetter so he’ll think he doesn’t have to move

But was that really her motivation?

Thecondition was upsetting Logan, not Cici, had Grandpère’s best interests at heart The last thing he needed was Cici uilty about a decision he’d been forced to make He didn’t want to y and be down here with his grandfather at the same time