Chapter 10

After lunch Veronica excused herself and headed to her Dad's new place to relax and wait for him to wrap things up at the office. About a year or two after Veronica had left town her Dad had saved enough to buy a cute three bedroom cottage near the beach. Veronica thought he had done it in a bid to win Wallace's mom back but when that relationship fizzled Keith stayed and made it his home, and she was glad he did. Veronica was lying on the bed in her room, well the guest room when Keith finally got home a few hours later.

"Veronica, honey where are you?"

"Right here." She said as she came bounding into the living room and into her Dad's arms.

"Alright. Now tell me, what happened today at the firm?"

Veronica gave her father the short version of the Bishop sisters and Don sending her home. She ended with "And Logan was there, he is Carol Bishop's boyfriend."

Keith Mars sighed, "I'm sorry you had to find out that way."

Veronica looked at her father "Wait, how did you, no, what do you know?"

"Honey, you know I really can't talk about clients with –"

Veronica cut him off "Clients! Dad what is going on? How do you know about Carol? How do you know about Logan? And why do you know about Betty March?" She was yelling by the end.

"Veronica."

"Dad."

"Alright." Keith exhaled in defeat as he started rubbing his forehead. "Logan came to me before the first book was published and asked for my help. "

"With what?"

"Making L.E. Lester a real person. Well a real person who could not be found. He had me read the book and let me tell you, not really how I wanted the holes in the story of your youth filled in young lady. But I saw it was a great book and I saw a different Logan from the one you dated so I agreed."

Veronica nodded. "So who all knows?"

"The truth about Lester? Logan, Cliff, myself and now you. Others might have put it together but they haven't said anything to Logan about it."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"You were making a new life for yourself and we, I mean he didn't want to ruin that for you."

"Right, so finding out at thirty thousand feet surrounded by strangers was the best way for this to happen?" Veronica was yelling, she knew she shouldn't be yelling at her Dad; but once again the men in her life were making decisions for her and she hated that.

"He was going to tell you this weekend."

"How do you know that?"

"Because it's what we agreed on last week."

"Last week? How often are you talking to Logan?"

"We touch base every other week, more when people want to talk to Lester about the Betty March books."

Veronica sat on the couch her head in her hands rocking slightly as she processed this new information. Keith walked over to his daughter and sat next to her placing is arm around her. She looked at her dad fresh tears in her eyes. "Why didn't he tell me?"

"He was trying to spare you more pain I think. And honey not to rub salt in the wound, you did tell him he was out of your life and then you left town, what did you except him to do?"

"I don't know."

"What do you want him to do now?"

Veronica silently looked at her Dad, afraid of what her answer might be, and even more afraid she would mean it.

Keith Mars rose and kissed his daughter on the top of her head. "I love you kiddo and I can't tell you how to live your life, but at least listen to your old man. There is a reason Logan Echolls wrote those stories and there is a reason people all over the world are reading them. You two owe it to each other to finally sit down and talk and more importantly listen to what the other one has to say."

Veronica hated when her dad was right.