Free Surrounded (Unsettled Series Book 2) by S.C. Ellington Page B

that great of a boxer either. I loved him, but he seemed to be more of a marketing guy. I think it was just his six five frame that intimidated people more than anything.
    “I doubt Logan would be intimidated by Jay. They have quite the budding bromance.” I caught myself smiling at that thought until I realized what I was doing. My smile melted. It was hard to stay mad at him when all I was really doing was missing him.
    I took a deep breath, “Logan has a kid on the way.” The words still sounded foreign as they hovered in the air. I took a huge gulp of hot chocolate. The liquid burned as it went down, like a strong whiskey. Too bad I couldn’t get drunk on chocolate.
    I peered over at Alex, to gage her reaction to the breaking news.
    “What? Are you serious?” she balked, a slight scowl on her face. “What do you mean; he has a kid on the way? ” Her facial expression said the same thing I was thinking. Jackass. “Did he tell you this himself? I mean, I’m not Logan’s BFF, but he doesn’t seem like the type to plant the flag without some type of backup. He might be a millionaire, but he’s definitely not stupid.”
    I turned away from her, staring at the back of our neighbor’s brownstone. Suddenly my mouth was full of sand.
    “Yeah, well, I might have said the same thing before last night” I huffed.
    “What happened in the bathroom?”
    I shrugged. “Two girls came in after I was already in my stall. They started talking about Logan, you know, how handsome he is and all that shit. So of course I eavesdropped on their conversation.”
    “What did they say?” I could tell she was trying to put together the puzzle without all the pieces.
    “You know who Elizabeth Drexel is, right?”
    “Of course I do, who doesn’t know her” she replied, as if I had two heads. Right. Who didn’t know who one of the most beautiful women in the acting world was? I rolled my eyes.
    “What does Elizabeth have to do with you and Logan?”
    “Everything,” I said. “Logan told me that they were just friends.”
    “So what makes you think that he lied about that?” I glanced back at Alex and took in her confused expression.
    “Gee, I don’t know? The fact that she’s carrying his baby?” I could hear the sarcasm dripping from my voice. Uttering those words made my stomach turn. Was this really happening?
    “She’s what?” Alex blurted. She started to speak, then stopped, then started again, “Elizabeth Drexel is carrying Logan’s baby?!” I nodded my head slowly, letting only my silence be her answer.  “Does Logan know?”
    “I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say no. I didn’t tell him what I heard; just that I knew he lied to me. But then again, I have no idea what he knows or what he is or isn’t hiding.”
    “How can you be sure that he lied to you then? How do you know that the baby is even his?” Oh, Alex. She was my everlasting well of reason.
    “I can’t be sure, but her friends were pretty clear about the situation. The point is he lied to me. He told me they were friends, not that they were fuck buddies. He told me that he hadn’t been with anyone in a long time. I had no idea that they’d even been together at all in that way.” The last words of that sentence left a very bitter taste in my mouth.
    “ Well, before you go off on an ‘I hate the air Logan breathes’ crusade, maybe you should figure out what parts of that story are truths or lies.”
    “Why are you defending him anyway?” I muttered, stubbornly. I picked up my mug and took a few more sips of my now lukewarm cocoa. I knew the lawyer side of Alex was just trying to get to the logical explanation of the story, but the emotional side of me wanted to make sure my best friend understood that I was mad. I didn’t think it was too much to want to be with a man who didn’t lie—or in Damon’s case, cheat.
    “I’m not taking his side, B. You know better than that. I’m just saying…” Alex abruptly paused