“You seem . . . in much better spirits,” she pointed out as she forked a bite of cherry pie into her mouth.
“Well, not completely, but . . . I guess a miracle like this is enough to snap me out of it. I mean, that’s what it is, you know? A miracle!”
Amy couldn’t deny that. Her mind still whirled from what had to have been the most shocking—and fantastic—turn of events to take place in Destiny in . . . maybe forever. “I know. I still can’t believe it.”
Logan shook his head at the wonder of it all as he cut into his slice of pie. “It’s incredible! And the fact that you and I were sitting there when she pulled up, and that we actually recognized her . . .” Another incredulous head shake. “I guess maybe it . . . restores my faith or something. That there’s something bigger than us orchestrating things, you know. I mean, I realize she’d have found Mike anyway, without us, but since I went through all that with him when we were kids, and for our whole lives really—well, it just means something to me to be the one who called him and let him know.”
Amy nodded—it was an unbelievably special thing. And if it brought Logan back to the land of the living—well, the rest of the way back—all the better.
And the truth was, she was still trying to come down from the shock of it herself. As soon as Mike and Anna had departed, both she and Logan had called all their friends—including Tessa, so that she could tell Anna’s other brother, Lucky—and it still felt . . . unreal.
“And damn, did you see how beautiful she is?” Logan asked then. “How amazing she looked?”
Hmm. Amy was beyond happy for Anna to be home, to rediscover her family after being gone for most of her life, but she could have lived without this part. Which was awful of her, she knew. It wasn’t Anna’s fault she was breathtakingly gorgeous. And it wasn’t Logan’s fault for noticing. But at the moment, it made her stomach sink, even as she felt obligated to say, “Yes, she’s very pretty.”
“Why’d you stop eating?” Logan asked her a minute later.
I just lost my appetite . She gave her head a short shake and tried to look unaffected. “Just taking a break, that’s all.”
Across from her, Logan appeared uncharacteristically introspective. “You know, maybe this happened for a reason, freckles. Not just for Mike and the rest of the family, but . . . for me, too.”
“What do you mean?” she asked—even as she was struck with the nagging feeling that maybe she didn’t really want to know.
“Did you know that when Anna was little, she followed me around all the time? And everyone said she had a crush on me?”
Amy sucked in her breath. “No, I didn’t realize that.” And she understood they were talking about something cute that had taken place a gazillion years ago and had no bearing on today, but still . . . ugh.
“And even though I was older than her, our families always joked that we’d end up getting married someday.”
Amy began to feel a little sick as she forced herself to lift her gaze from Logan’s T-shirt to his face. “You don’t say.”
“And . . .” He stopped, laughed, cheerful as ever, cheerful as if the last month hadn’t even happened. “It’s not like I want to get married anytime soon or anything, but the thing is, just a few hours ago I was sort of thinking . . .”
Oh Lord. Could this get any worse? “Thinking what?”
“That maybe I needed a new woman in my life. Some romance, you know? And how nice it would be if God just dropped the right woman into my lap. So . . .” He ate another bite of pie. “Just kind of interesting timing. For Anna Romo to suddenly reappear. And to be incredible looking. And she seemed sweet, too, don’t you think? I mean, I can only imagine how strange this is for her, everything she’s going through, but she still seemed sweet as hell.”
Okay, if Amy had felt a little sick a minute ago, now she
“Well, not completely, but . . . I guess a miracle like this is enough to snap me out of it. I mean, that’s what it is, you know? A miracle!”
Amy couldn’t deny that. Her mind still whirled from what had to have been the most shocking—and fantastic—turn of events to take place in Destiny in . . . maybe forever. “I know. I still can’t believe it.”
Logan shook his head at the wonder of it all as he cut into his slice of pie. “It’s incredible! And the fact that you and I were sitting there when she pulled up, and that we actually recognized her . . .” Another incredulous head shake. “I guess maybe it . . . restores my faith or something. That there’s something bigger than us orchestrating things, you know. I mean, I realize she’d have found Mike anyway, without us, but since I went through all that with him when we were kids, and for our whole lives really—well, it just means something to me to be the one who called him and let him know.”
Amy nodded—it was an unbelievably special thing. And if it brought Logan back to the land of the living—well, the rest of the way back—all the better.
And the truth was, she was still trying to come down from the shock of it herself. As soon as Mike and Anna had departed, both she and Logan had called all their friends—including Tessa, so that she could tell Anna’s other brother, Lucky—and it still felt . . . unreal.
“And damn, did you see how beautiful she is?” Logan asked then. “How amazing she looked?”
Hmm. Amy was beyond happy for Anna to be home, to rediscover her family after being gone for most of her life, but she could have lived without this part. Which was awful of her, she knew. It wasn’t Anna’s fault she was breathtakingly gorgeous. And it wasn’t Logan’s fault for noticing. But at the moment, it made her stomach sink, even as she felt obligated to say, “Yes, she’s very pretty.”
“Why’d you stop eating?” Logan asked her a minute later.
I just lost my appetite . She gave her head a short shake and tried to look unaffected. “Just taking a break, that’s all.”
Across from her, Logan appeared uncharacteristically introspective. “You know, maybe this happened for a reason, freckles. Not just for Mike and the rest of the family, but . . . for me, too.”
“What do you mean?” she asked—even as she was struck with the nagging feeling that maybe she didn’t really want to know.
“Did you know that when Anna was little, she followed me around all the time? And everyone said she had a crush on me?”
Amy sucked in her breath. “No, I didn’t realize that.” And she understood they were talking about something cute that had taken place a gazillion years ago and had no bearing on today, but still . . . ugh.
“And even though I was older than her, our families always joked that we’d end up getting married someday.”
Amy began to feel a little sick as she forced herself to lift her gaze from Logan’s T-shirt to his face. “You don’t say.”
“And . . .” He stopped, laughed, cheerful as ever, cheerful as if the last month hadn’t even happened. “It’s not like I want to get married anytime soon or anything, but the thing is, just a few hours ago I was sort of thinking . . .”
Oh Lord. Could this get any worse? “Thinking what?”
“That maybe I needed a new woman in my life. Some romance, you know? And how nice it would be if God just dropped the right woman into my lap. So . . .” He ate another bite of pie. “Just kind of interesting timing. For Anna Romo to suddenly reappear. And to be incredible looking. And she seemed sweet, too, don’t you think? I mean, I can only imagine how strange this is for her, everything she’s going through, but she still seemed sweet as hell.”
Okay, if Amy had felt a little sick a minute ago, now she
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