Chapter 34

     He smiled at the improvements and Keira's eyes opened to see his face. Her hand reached up to cup his cheek and he clamped it there.

"For goodness sake, Logan, I had hypothermia, I'm not dying"

  It felt good to hear her warm voice again, her eyes were full of life and he half-laughed in disbelief when she reached up to kiss him on the cheek, he reddened at the laughter in the room when she did that.

  He couldn't believe the lie that the staff had to pull through to prank him, he was happy about the stops to her room for a visit while they were recovering from the flu and if he was feeling lucky, they would let him stay longer with a little privacy.

Amy, Sam, and the others dropped by from time to time to check if she wasn't dead yet with him by her side, Winston set up another bed in her room so he wouldn't have to walk to and fro.

 Finn still hated him and her grandpa Seamus once pulled a handgun at him but luckily he dropped charges and Seamus would give him an occasional smack on the butt with a cane and yell in Irish.

"I think he just cursed your ancestors"

  Keira said with him being clueless about what the old man said just as she was when he spoke French to Pierre. Logan stirred his pudding all while she pulled at the lid of her pudding cup, hers looked lumpy.

"I'll be okay with that if he allows me to walk down the aisle with you"

Her lips quivered when he asked that and she dumped her cup of pudding into a bowl and spread it around and he chuckled at the way her hand moved swiftly.

"What are you doing?"

"Looking for a ring, this pudding looks funny and I thought..."

"There are shreds of coconut in there" He pointed and she blushed, she just took the joy out of eating pudding away. Brushing her hair back, she laid there with his hoodie on and a red nose.

"Logan..." She looked like she was going to give him a long lecture about prudence.

"What?"

"What day is it?"

"Sunday, I don't know, I seem to lose track of time, I mean the clocks aren't working."

 He didn't like the expression on her face when she pulled out a tabloid and he read the headline and scoffed at the picture of him with Keira in his arms.

Wyoming's Most Eligible Bachelor: Hotshot CEO, Logan Daniels no longer in the market.

He read trivial commentaries even from columnists whom he thought had a great deal of self-respect, as much as he tried to get away from the press, they just keep haunting him with these ridiculous headlines, she wasn't anonymous anymore and now the whole state possibly might know he was having an affair with the owner of a store.

 He rubbed his forehead and hissed dropping the paper.

  She was just imagining the looks of customers' faces when they learn about that, he just undermined her privacy as she knew it.

"Keira_"

"What are you going to do, an ad baculum?" She retorted disturbed and he sat up.

"Does Finn know?"