Page 159 of Wild Ride

When I look up, Luke’s standing in front of me.

I jump up. “How is he? Do you have more information?”

Luke tilts his head toward Logan’s room. “He’s asking for you.”

We lock eyes.

I glance over at Gigi, who’s staring at us.

“Go,” Luke says to me. “I’ll talk to her. He needs you.”

I peek inside the cracked door.

Logan’s face is pale and his eyes are closed.

I take a step into the room but then stop.

He’s resting and I don’t want to disturb him.

“Get over here, Henwood,” he growls as his eyes open and fix on me.

I shut the door behind me and hurry over to him. “Oh, my God, Logan.” I lean over the bed and throw my arms around him. “I was so worried about you. Are you okay? I mean, obviously you’re not okay, but I’m just so glad you’re awake.”

He shoots me a half-grin and then grimaces. “I’m okay. I’m good.”

I sit next to him on the bed. “I saw that bronc buck you off. I’ve never been so scared in my life.”

“You were there?”

“Of course I was there. You asked me to be. I’ll always cheer for and support you, Logan.” I fidget with my hands on my lap. “Even when you’re…”

His hand lands on my bare knee. “Thank you, Mace. I’ll do the same for you. I was so happy you won the target contest. You deserved it.”

His gaze is intense.

“Why do I get the feeling something’s going on that I don’t know about?” I whisper.

My words bounce off the stark-white walls of the hospital room. Then, ever so slightly, Logan’s hand squeezes my knee.

It feels like a message.

But his face is blank.

“Logan…”

Knock, knock.

“Dr. Glenn is here to speak to you,” the nurse says as she peeks in the door.

I tell Logan I’ll see him tomorrow and then I leave the room and walk down the hall, passing Gigi as I go.

I keep walking down the hall and through the hospital until I’ve left the building. I take a seat on an outdoor bench and breathe in the stifling hot Texas air.

My pulse is going haywire.

Because for all the moments Logan Wild and I have shared, for all the times he’s had my back…this little moment we just spent together…it was everything and nothing all at once.

It confused the heck out of me.