“May I help you?” the hostess asked.“I’m supposed to be meeting my friend here. Tina St. Louis?”The hostess paled at the name. “Miss St. Louis is not here today, nor were we expecting her. She always calls us before she arrives to ensure the staff she prefers is working…”I don’t understand. I wro
“You need to break up with her,” I told Logan later, when he came over to see me in the evening. He’d barely just come through the door. I probably should have waited a minute before bombarding him.“Let me take my jacket off first,” he said. Walking toward my two-person table, he shucked off his co
As other employees began to arrive to work, Hazel quietly walked out of Logan’s office without finishing her thought. On one hand, Logan was frustrated. He had wanted to know what Hazel had been about to say. On the other, he was relieved, because he suspected she had been about to end things betwee
“I’m sorry,” I said, disbelieving my own ears. “You said, you think you should?”“Some of what Tina said made sense,” Logan said as he continued to chew on his potato chips. “This front does give us the perfect cover, but with a cover like this, more activity is going to be needed on my part to main
“Why don’t you come inside,” Tina said, stepping inside from the door, allowing me the room to enter. “We have so much to talk about.”I was hesitant to go in. After all, I came here to give her a piece of my mind, without any intention of this becoming a two-person conversation. She seemed almost p
I trusted him fine. It was Tina I didn’t trust.“I understand your worry,” Tina said. “After all, he’s so much more important than you. Of finer birth. Handsome and popular. I’m sure he’s constantly surrounded by women hoping to catch his eye. You must constantly be thinking, how can I possibly keep
The minute I walked over Logan’s threshold, with the door safely closing behind me, Logan pulled me into his arms and kissed me senseless.There wasn’t much room for talking after that, as we shed our clothes on the way to the bedroom and then proceeded to test the strength and durability of Logan’s
“He’s different,” I told my friends the next night, when we met at our typical wine bar. “I can’t really explain it, but he’s… distant. More closed off. And shorter with me than he’s been in a long time… Maybe since the beginning.”Maria, Megan, and Rachel listened to my retelling of the previous ni
“I’ve been in this game for too long,” Senior said. “When I first got the news, I could only think about my legacy. I became obsessed with it. I’m not like you, Walter. I didn’t think about my family, or anyone else. Only myself.” “It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks,” Mr. Hudgens said. He la
“Janice,” Senior said. All smug arrogance disappeared from his voice. “What are you doing here?” “At first I didn’t think I would come,” Janice replied. “After all these years… I didn’t want to see your face ever again for as long as I lived. Better to leave well enough alone. But… after hearing e
I glanced down at my pink blouse and gray slacks. What was so wrong with my outfits? I dressed professionally… mostly. He really thought I needed supervision to pick out an outfit.Looking at Logan, I saw my own disbelief mirrored back at me. This was absolutely ridiculous.“Is that it?” Walter aske
In front of the partition screen, a large table had been assembled, with rows of chairs on either side, facing each other. We took our side, and Senior and his team of lawyers took theirs. There were so many lawyers that many of them had to stand.Senior sat across from Logan, though his glare of di
“He might surprise us,” Dylan said, a shred of hope in his voice, under a healthy level of cynicism.“Don’t hold your breath,” Frank replied.“The problem is we don’t know fully what to expect,” Mabel said. “Well – other than Senior being a crotchety asshole who will try to cheat us at every turn. W
“It’s time to talk to Logan and Hazel and stop this whole thing,” Dylan said. “You are outnumbered and outmatched, with so many people ready to stand against you.”Opening the top of the folder, Senior glared down at the stack of papers in the stack. “Disgruntled former employees. Fake friends. Fami
“We were just hoping to talk to her,” I said.The man’s brow lifted slightly. “Are you selling something? Wait -- why do you look familiar?” Narrowing his eyes, he gazed at us with suspicion. Then, suddenly, recognition must have struck him because his eyes widened. “You’re those people from the new
Despite the general unpleasantness of the conversation with the mayor and the governor, they eventually agreed to let us go. They had no real reason to hold us, and Logan saw through their veiled threats easily enough.In fact, he even seemed to make them feel to make them feel like unsupportive fri
That day, we changed our minds and decided to release six interviews to the website, with Michael Hatfield’s being the final. Overnight, the story gained so much national traction that the sheriff and two security men show up at our door.“Logan Hatfield? Hazel Whitaker? The mayor wants to speak wit