Chapter 353 Race To The Finish

Ella

With my evening of pizza and true crime shows having been abruptly shattered by Logan’s obnoxious honking outside, I sighed and leaned on the balcony railing. There he was, sitting in his red convertible with a sheepish grin on his face.

“Wanna go for a joyride?” he called up to me, the grin on his face only widening even more. I raised an eyebrow and frowned down at him. “A joyride, Logan? Seriously?”

“Yes, seriously,” he replied as he climbed out of the car. “It’ll be fun.”

I paused for a moment, glancing down at my clothes. I had only just gotten home from work less than twenty minutes ago, and was already in my sweatpants and hoodie. My hair was pulled up into a messy bun on top of my head, and my makeup was smudged. Not to mention the uneaten, greasy pizza that was waiting for me on my coffee table.

“I can’t,” I said, shaking my head. “I’ve got a hot date with some bodega pizza and a true crime show-”

His laughter just drifted up to me and interrupted me mid-sentence, only serving to further amplify my annoyance. “True crime? C’mon, Miss Morgan. Get dressed. Let’s have some fun.”

My arms crossed over my chest as I considered his proposition. But even then, I wasn’t particularly keen on going out with him; especially not when I had promised to myself that I wouldn’t let him in. It was already bad enough that we had gotten so close recently, and after what happened in the restaurant…

“Logan, I just got out of work. Sorry, but I don’t want to go out.”

“Oh, come on,” he called back, his grin unwavering. “I’ve got a surprise for you and everything. I promise you’ll be glad you came.”

I paused, rolling my eyes but also oddly intrigued at the same time.

“You should go.” Ema’s voice, always in the back of my mind, chimed in. “You could use a little fun. And the two of you…”

“Enough with the two of us,” I interrupted, feeling the telltale sign of my heart picking up its pace at my wolf’s implication. “It’s not happening.”

still go. You

need a distraction from everything, even just for an hour

leaned on the hood of his red car.

be worth it!” I yelled down before retreating

jeans and a casual top, then lightly touched up my mascara, I wondered why Logan was always so keen on hanging out. Was he still bent on the idea of

head, I told myself to just go with it. A few minutes later, I

kidnapping me to?” I asked, fastening my seatbelt

He smirked, and

Logan drove, the lights of the city flashed by in a blur. His eyes remained fixed on the road, but the smirk never left his lips. I found myself watching

hang out with me?” I finally asked, breaking the silence that had settled between us. “It’s not

his smirk evolving into a smile. “We’ve been over this, Ella,” he said, his voice softening ever

maybe a little too defensively. Logan scoffed. “And when exactly was the last

Logan made me go to family events with him, I honestly couldn’t think of anything except for lunch with Sarah. “Well, I had lunch with my

with a coworker doesn’t

annoyed by

this city, despite its bad reputation, has so much more to offer as far as night life goes,” Logan said, his eyes alight with an earnest glow that

be my

at a red light. In the crosswalk in front of us, a group of what appeared to be college students walked across the street, dressed in their party clothes and laughing. When I was in college, I

us for a few more

air, and for a moment, a wave of realization washed over me. We did only have a limited time in this arrangement before

suddenly conscious that my cheeks were tinged with

okay?” he asked, sensing my

I responded, a little too quickly. “I’m

like you were a million miles away for a

what you

“And?”

not wanting to reveal even a hint of the strange mix of emotions that had momentarily taken control over me. “It’s just something to consider,

city. When he pulled into an alley that opened up

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