Chapter 81: Realization

Logan headed out to the back deck. He saw Charlotte sitting in a lawn chair, the twins running around and playing. Serena appeared from behind a tree, pouncing on the ground in wolf form.

Her overpowering, mouthwatering scent hit him like a punch in the gut! Logan gave a soft grunt, but it was enough to catch Serena’s attention.

In her wolf form, she froze, staring at him. Logan stared back, wide eyed and too shocked to move or form a single word! He recognized her now! She was the wolf he had encountered in the woods, the one he didn’t know and who he thought was his mate! More than that, his memory clicked into place from where he knew her!

A somewhat fuzzy night in a tree house after a masquerade party. His senses had been dulled that night, but after seeing her pictures in the living room and smelling her in the woods, there was no mistaking that she was the woman he had spent the night with!

“Kids, look who has come for a visit,” Thomas called to the twins. They looked over at the deck.

hardened as she started at him. Automatically, Logan went down on his knee to hug the kids, but he

the fish Oliver caught attacked us!” She threw herself dramatically over Logan’s arm. He smiled, enjoying her antics, even though it felt tight. He needed to talk to Serena, that was all he could think about, but she still hadn’t emerged from the bushes. He kept glancing up, but she wasn’t returning. She knew he knew! All her secrets were coming out now, and Logan had never imagined he was one of them! “That sounds like a lot of fun,” Logan said. “Can you go fishing with us next time?” Oliver asked. “I’d like that,” Logan said. “Olivia, Oliver, how old are you now?” Olivia looked closely at her fingers, forming them and holding her hands out to show Logan how many years old they were. “This many years,” she said. “You were at our birthday, don’t you remember?” “Yea, that big storm,” Oliver said, leaning in a little closer to Logan. Logan sighed, yes he remembered. He had been their hero that day, and every day since! Shaking his head, he looked closely at Oliver and Olivia. They looked very much alike, but Oliver was his spitting image! He remembered when his mother had thought Oliver was his childhood

had been there, but he had been too wrapped up in his

bushes. She was in her human form now, dressed. She was brushing her fingers through her hair to

stood up and gently pushed the kids towards their grandfather. He stepped off the deck so he could stand right in front of Serena. On the outside, he was well in control of his anger. He wasn’t going to prove to her that he was the monster she thought he was, not in front of her kids or her family. Lips and

breath and took a heavy, deep breath. Closing his eyes, he sighed, forcing himself

changing, and she had done it knowing how open he’d been with her. He’d confided in her about so much, including his concerns about being a father, and she had said nothing! Logan’s hands clenched into fists at his

out what it was that he saw in

over to the two of them. Thomas was keeping the kids on the deck. Neither Charlotte nor Thomas

to be talked about here.” Logan scoffed. “We are going to talk about this,” he insisted. Serena raised an eyebrow at him, “You really want to do this here?”

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