sorry because none of this would be happening to you if it wasn’t for me.”
“Please don’t say you called Luc here.”
He finally looked at her. “I wanted to make sure you were safe.”
There it was. The truth. Ryder was always telling the truth.
She shook her head and asked, “So this was all for her?”
He frowned. “I just said I was trying to keep you safe.”
“But—” She squeezed her eyes shut. It was so hard to look at him. She loved the Logan who was cocky and sweet. She loved the Logan who made her forget everything wrong. The Logan who could frighten her enemies and show off that she was his girl. Now all she saw was Janie’s Logan.
“I’m trying to come clean,” he murmured. “I have to.”
“Because of her.” She opened her eyes but kept her gaze aimed at the wall.
“Dammit! For both of you.” He sighed, clenching his fist. “This has been killing me.”
She couldn’t stop herself from giving him a dirty look. “You know what? I don’t want to hear how more shit about her has been killing you. I just wish I could unsee how you were with her yesterday and thirty minutes ago. So just tell me what you were going to last night.”
His jaw clenched tightly, but he sat down in the desk beside her. “I’ll tell you what I can about the Grimm Legacy. I’m trying to be honest. I’m not lying when I say I want to fix things. I want us to work. We’re good together, and I want to see if we can be great. Just let me fix my mistakes. I fucked up so much. It’s not going to be easy to work out.”
This gave her hope. He was trying to be completely honest with her—about his mistakes.
What about your mistakes?
God, I’m losing my mind.
Logan started speaking again. “I’ve never been so afraid of losing someone as I was when Kevin called me that day. And when I talked to Ryder, I knew he wouldn’t help me. Or I believed he wouldn’t. He kept telling me you would be fine, but knowing you were going into a horror house was driving me nuts. I mean, I’d just found out how severe your abuse was, but you were so adamant about going back, about not getting help. I panicked.
“I had to pretend everything would be okay—for you. I just thought it was the only way for me to get to a place where I could give you the right protection.”
Kylie sighed and lowered her gaze to not see his handsome face. “There’s more?”
Logan took a hold of her hand. “Yes. My family . . . we’re not regular people.”
Oh, great. Is this where he says he’s a werewolf?
“We do the horrible things Ryder and his family stop—and commit the crimes the Knight family punishes.”
“What?” She would have been more prepared for him being a mythical creature. She had no idea what he meant.
“The fairy tales—they’re real.” He watched her. “The Grimms were chosen to fulfill a duty in this world. The only problem was, as time passed, many strayed from the path they were told to follow.”
She didn’t want to insult him, but she was ready to roll her eyes because this was the stupidest thing she’d ever heard. “So what’s this duty?”
He swallowed, his hand tensing around hers. “Grimms are hunters. The world, as we see it, is full of the evilest souls to ever exist. They all have choices to make, and many choose to stay in the dark. Then there are some so innocent, they’re in danger of the wicked. So us Grimms and the other families protect the innocent, and give those seeking redemption a chance. It just shifted to a darker path when the source of good stayed away.”
“And what’s the source of good? Jesus?”
He chuckled, rubbing his face. “Um, no. Well, yeah, God is always that, but for our world and those who know what it is, it’s the moon. You know, like the story. The moon used to always be a New Moon—dark—until about eighteen years ago, right? Well, it’s like that. They were waiting for the moon to glow.”
She looked away from him. She hated The Little Moon. “The moon’s always been there though. Scientists even say there are stories about a full moon, so it was in view before, too. They said it was probably a meteor crash like the one that knocked it back around that made it stop.”
“Yeah, I