Logan's Rattler A. Jarrett (electronic reader .TXT) 📖

a high-pitch squeal so loud Finn had to pull the phone from his ear.

“How can you dump me? We just met and you pursued me not the other way around, mister. Jeez, just when I start to think I’ve found a keeper, he bales on me.”

Finn listened to his mate babble on and on. He loved how when Logan got flustered, he talked a mile a minute and just kept going, not breaking for air. Life with Logan would never be dull.

“Honey, I’m not breaking up with you. I’d never leave you.

You’re mine,” Finn said. No matter what, he would never leave Logan for any purpose. They were mates, and that was a bond that would last an eternity.

“Oh thank god.” Logan breathed a sigh of relief Finn could hear over the phone. Finn smiled at Logan’s honesty.

“I’m glad you’re good with that.” He chuckled. “But I do have to reschedule our date for tonight. Some work”—Finn racked his brain for a way to best describe the day’s events—“stuff has come up, and I’m needed here.” It was the best he could think of. The thought of lying to Logan didn’t sit well with him. Lies tore people apart, and he had full intentions of laying everything out on the table for Logan as soon as this nasty mess with Astrid was resolved.

“Oh, okay, I can understand that.” Logan took a deep breath. “So when do I get to see you again? Tomorrow? The next day? The day after? What kind of time frame we talking about here? I can be free whenever you want to see me.” Logan said the words so fast Finn was fortunate to have caught it all.

“Slow down, honey.” Finn chuckled. “Let’s shoot for tomorrow evening. Will that work for you?” Finn asked.

“Sounds like a date, little man.” Logan giggled into the phone.

Finn bristled at the word little. Dear god, his mate had chosen the one endearment that would drive him nuts. But as long as it was only

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Logan saying it, he could live with it. “Great! I’ll meet you at your house around seven.”

“Who was that?”

Logan looked up to see Leo leaning casually against the door frame looking as if he hadn’t a care in the world. It was a false bravado. He could see apprehension in his best friend’s eyes, and Logan couldn’t blame him. Leo just witnessed him faint with no explanation as to why. When he came to, the only thing he said was that he needed to call Finn. Leo had yet to meet Finn and was baffled by his need to call some stranger.

“That was Finn.” It was only fair to fill Leo in on what had happened the other night. “Leo, sit down. We need to talk.”

He told Leo about getting in a fight with Rhett the previous night.

And how he was so upset he took off walking alone in the woods.

Then about the wolves he thought were following him. Leo’s faced paled at hearing his story, but he didn’t interrupt.

The particulars on how he wound up in Finn’s bed were still shady in his mind, so he couldn’t really elaborate on those specifics.

He left out the detail of the earth-shattering sex they shared thinking it would cause Leo to doubt Finn’s intentions toward him.

“Shit, Logan, why didn’t you call me? I’d of come and gotten you.”

Logan stood up and walked around the desk to sit on top of the hard surface facing Leo. “I was safe with Finn. I know I just met the man, but he’s special. I can’t explain it, but I feel like he’s a part of me, and I trust him like I trust in you.”

Leo shook his head. “Logan, I don’t know about all this. Hell, just a few days ago you were dating Rhett, and now after one night you’re gushing over a guy you literally just met. Do you see my concern?”

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“I do.” Logan nodded. “But you know me, Leo. I’d never trust just anyone. There is something about Finn. I feel like I’ve known him my whole life.” He felt a smile tug at his cheeks. “I think he’s my knight in shining armor come to save me.”

Leo let his head fall back