have to go through this grieving period for a relationship that apparently was only one-sided to begin with.”
“Ben said something to Logan in the stable, before you came in, and it made sense. It’s probably what he felt when he met me.”
“How long where you in that stall?” Abby laughed.
“Long enough. Ben told him, and I’m paraphrasing, If a man cheats on his woman, he’s lost all right to her. It’s true. He lost all rights he had to you, including your emotions and feelings when he cheated on you, let alone when you divorced. Your husband treated you like you were a possession that he could throw away when he got tired of it, like a little boy with his toys. He has no right to claim you back when someone else wants to pick you up and dust you off.”
“Thanks, I think. I still think it doesn’t matter. Even if I decided-“Abby broke off when Kassey threw her a disgruntled look.
“If, or when, I decide to go back, and make a decision to come back here and relocate or stay in Boston, Logan isn’t still going to want me. As soon as I went back to Boston to finalize things, he would forget about me. There’s attraction there, but you need feelings for someone, and despite what I feel, that doesn’t mean he feels it too.”
“And what do you feel?”
Abby thought long and hard about that.
“I don’t know. It’s true that from the moment I first looked at Logan, I felt like a new person. On my way out here, driving all those miles, I felt that my life was over, like the moment I found out Steve had cheated on me, my life ended. I was on auto-pilot, not feeling anything, everything was by rote. Then I got here, and saw Logan, and I lit up. I haven’t felt anything like that before.” Abby smil ed, thinking back to the first moment. It had felt like everything she had done in her life had led to that moment, that everything in her past had been rehearsal until then.
“Sounds like you’re in love.”
Abby looked at her sharply, Kassey’s words sending a fissure of disquiet into her stomach.
“How can I be in love with someone I barely know, while I’m still getting over a man that I was married to and thought I loved for 13 years?”
“Because sometimes, our hearts know what’s right long before our brains do.”
Chapter Five
Abby pondered over Kassey’s words as she brushed down Ellie, finding comfort in the long smooth strokes of the brush down the mare’s gleaming coat. In love with Logan? After only knowing him for 2 days? How could that be?
She stopped what she was doing, and laid her head on Ellie’s side. Just more to think about, adding to the turmoil already in her poor, beleaguered brain. She thought back to when she met Steve, and the multitude of emotions that she had felt then. Excitement that a man of his looks and breeding had paid attention to her, pride of having him as her man, but she had never had that feeling that a person was supposed to have when they met the person they were going to spend the rest of their lives with. She didn’t immediately look at Steve and think, “That’s the man I’m going to marry”. It just came with time, as if it was a step on their way to becoming responsible adults, like a check list. Dating, check; moved in together, check; marriage, check.
When she first saw Logan, when he had stood and turned around and looked at her with those penetrating eyes, it was as if he had looked into her soul, and she had felt as if she had finally found what she was looking for. That was something she had never felt with Steve, didn’t believe it had even existed.
Even thinking about him now, her blood ran hot, her pulse quickened, and he wasn’t even near. She was smart enough to realize that was a carnal reaction, and it was a deep ache she longed to ease, but beneath that was something else, a fierce need to know everything about him, his wants and dreams, what drove him.
God, girl, you are in love with
“Ben said something to Logan in the stable, before you came in, and it made sense. It’s probably what he felt when he met me.”
“How long where you in that stall?” Abby laughed.
“Long enough. Ben told him, and I’m paraphrasing, If a man cheats on his woman, he’s lost all right to her. It’s true. He lost all rights he had to you, including your emotions and feelings when he cheated on you, let alone when you divorced. Your husband treated you like you were a possession that he could throw away when he got tired of it, like a little boy with his toys. He has no right to claim you back when someone else wants to pick you up and dust you off.”
“Thanks, I think. I still think it doesn’t matter. Even if I decided-“Abby broke off when Kassey threw her a disgruntled look.
“If, or when, I decide to go back, and make a decision to come back here and relocate or stay in Boston, Logan isn’t still going to want me. As soon as I went back to Boston to finalize things, he would forget about me. There’s attraction there, but you need feelings for someone, and despite what I feel, that doesn’t mean he feels it too.”
“And what do you feel?”
Abby thought long and hard about that.
“I don’t know. It’s true that from the moment I first looked at Logan, I felt like a new person. On my way out here, driving all those miles, I felt that my life was over, like the moment I found out Steve had cheated on me, my life ended. I was on auto-pilot, not feeling anything, everything was by rote. Then I got here, and saw Logan, and I lit up. I haven’t felt anything like that before.” Abby smil ed, thinking back to the first moment. It had felt like everything she had done in her life had led to that moment, that everything in her past had been rehearsal until then.
“Sounds like you’re in love.”
Abby looked at her sharply, Kassey’s words sending a fissure of disquiet into her stomach.
“How can I be in love with someone I barely know, while I’m still getting over a man that I was married to and thought I loved for 13 years?”
“Because sometimes, our hearts know what’s right long before our brains do.”
Chapter Five
Abby pondered over Kassey’s words as she brushed down Ellie, finding comfort in the long smooth strokes of the brush down the mare’s gleaming coat. In love with Logan? After only knowing him for 2 days? How could that be?
She stopped what she was doing, and laid her head on Ellie’s side. Just more to think about, adding to the turmoil already in her poor, beleaguered brain. She thought back to when she met Steve, and the multitude of emotions that she had felt then. Excitement that a man of his looks and breeding had paid attention to her, pride of having him as her man, but she had never had that feeling that a person was supposed to have when they met the person they were going to spend the rest of their lives with. She didn’t immediately look at Steve and think, “That’s the man I’m going to marry”. It just came with time, as if it was a step on their way to becoming responsible adults, like a check list. Dating, check; moved in together, check; marriage, check.
When she first saw Logan, when he had stood and turned around and looked at her with those penetrating eyes, it was as if he had looked into her soul, and she had felt as if she had finally found what she was looking for. That was something she had never felt with Steve, didn’t believe it had even existed.
Even thinking about him now, her blood ran hot, her pulse quickened, and he wasn’t even near. She was smart enough to realize that was a carnal reaction, and it was a deep ache she longed to ease, but beneath that was something else, a fierce need to know everything about him, his wants and dreams, what drove him.
God, girl, you are in love with
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