Chapter 27

"Have we met before?" I asked and Logan hesitated for a moment, his eyes narrowing slightly as if considering my words carefully. His weight shifted, while he stood with his hands stuffed into the pockets of his suit, and took a long, deliberate breath before answering me. "No," he said, his voice deep, steady, and full of something I couldn’t quite place. "We have not met before." I felt a mix of relief and a sinking feeling in my stomach, unsure if that was a good or bad thing. Logan had been nothing but polite to me, Although he is distant at times, and there was something unsettling about his extremely careful behavior around me. However, I couldn’t ignore the tension that sparked in the air every time we were near each other. "Why would you think that?" Logan asked, his brow furrowing slightly in genuine curiosity, "It is not necessary for us to be familiar to each other." I hesitated for only a moment before answering, "No one trusts a stranger unconditionally. The way you were s