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.”

But you should still go. You

need a distraction from everything, even just

leaned on the hood of his red car. “You

had better be worth it!” I yelled down before retreating

for 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 the two of us

A few minutes later, I found myself sitting in

I asked,

smirked, and

a blur. His eyes remained fixed on the road, but the smirk never left

me?” I finally asked, breaking the silence that had settled between us. “It’s not like we need to hang

he said, his voice softening ever

go out,” I retorted, maybe a little too defensively. Logan scoffed. “And when exactly was the

paused, searching my memory. Aside from the recent times when 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 coworker

chuckled. “Lunch with a coworker doesn’t

looked at him, a bit annoyed by his tone. “And

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 caught me off

you’ve taken it upon yourself to be my personal tour guide?

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.

continued, “we do have this contract between us for a few more months. Might as well make the

realization washed over me. We did only have a limited time in this arrangement before it would all come to an end. For some reason,

my cheeks were tinged

sensing

responded, a little too quickly. “I’m

a million miles away for a second

what you said, about making the most

“And?”

nothing,” I shot back, not wanting to reveal even a hint of the strange mix of

I realized we were heading toward an unfamiliar part of the city. When he pulled into an alley that opened up to reveal an

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