Landon: Justice Series ― Erotica Paranormal Romance by Kathi S. Barton Page A

it was, it was tearing Landon apart. His aura was dark with pain, and she wanted to see what she could do to help him. Pulling out her cell phone, she put in his name and realized her mistake immediately.
    There were six Landon Logans. Clicking on each one, she read their dates of birth and death until she came to Logan. The man’s picture was there with his obituary. The man had lived a very colorful and very happy life, it seemed. Not only that, Landon’s grandfather had managed to nearly triple his money in a single move some years before Landon had been born, and left it all to his only child, Landon’s father. And when he’d been murdered by an intruder at his home at the age of ninety-four, Vinnie had a feeling it was the saddest day in his life not to be able to go on with the next adventure. He’d been a widow for nearly forty years when he’d passed. Then she pulled up her Landon.
    The sixth in a long and very prestigious lineage, Landon came from very old money. As she read about his line, his family history, Vinnie had a feeling that what might have been printed was nothing like what his real life really was. Then she came to the day of the fire.
    Landon had been in Paris at an all-boys boarding school when it broke out. There were rumors that Landon himself had set it, but that was quickly dismissed when the attorneys for the family said that he’d been able to save five other boys who had been caught in the blaze that took down three of the larger dorms at the school, as well as a portion of the gym that had been the focus of the investigation. It was said, and sort of glossed over, that there had been a drug lab in the upper levels that had never been discovered until the fire happened. Two boys, both of whom had been kicked out of the school some time before, had been killed. And according to their pictures, grainy and faded in the paper, it was the two with Landon now.
    It went on to say that Landon had been able to pull one body out on his own minutes after the fire trucks had arrived, and had gone in for more before anyone could guess his intent. All told, it said that he’d managed to bring out the few that had been in the building when the explosion had rocked the place, and the bodies of two who had died before help could arrive. Those two were the only deaths attributed to the fire. And Landon had been hurt badly in it as well.
    She never got any further in her reading, as Steele came into the room with them. Vinnie watched his face, the way he seemed to be slightly overwhelmed by it all, until Ray snapped his finger in front of his face. And even then, he wasn’t entirely focused.
    “I’m a dad.” Ray laughed and asked him of what. “I have a daughter. A little girl. She and her mom are...I have a little girl, and she’s the most gorgeous thing. All her toes and...it’s a girl. I have a little girl.”
    Everyone congratulated him and asked how they were doing. Steele seemed to get his act together after a little bit, and told them that she weighed eight pounds and five ounces and was nineteen inches long. That she had red hair like her mother and the bluest eyes. When asked her name, Steele turned to his sister and asked her to tell them. Aster had died at seventeen, but had never left her only brother.
    “Her name is Aster Bethany Constance Bennett. And she really is very beautiful.” It was a day for celebration, and everyone brought out gifts hidden around the room. Even the nurses had bought them a gift, as well as the doctor who Vinnie knew they’d helped out a couple of times. And as they made their way back to see the baby and new mom, Vinnie asked to speak to Dillon.
    “Are you planning to warn me off?” Vinnie asked her if someone else had already tried that. “No. But we’ve only known each other today and he wants me to move in with him. I mean...we’re already sleeping together, so I guess why not. So if you’re planning to tell me to go away quietly or else, then