"I'm pregnant."

Again those words hung in the air.

Rory watched in shock as Logan smiled slightly "So it's mine?"

"Yeah. It's definitely yours."

"Wow."

"That's what my mom said too, and Luke. In fact, all 3 people who know have said exactly that. Not that it's a bad reaction, I mean unless you meant it as a bad reaction, which would be okay. I mean this was totally unexpected!

Woah, slow down there Ace. I haven't heard you babble like that since Yale."

"Sorry. I'm just nervous I guess."

"Nervous about telling me?"

"Nervous about telling you, nervous about all of it."

"I don't want you to ever have to feel nervous about telling me things, Ace."

"I didn't want to ruin things for you. You are successful Logan. You were engaged and I thought you were happy with her. I really did."

"I haven't been happy in a long time. Not really."

"I didn't know."

"That was intentional." Logan sighed and leaned forward with his elbows on his legs and rubbed his temples as if his head hurt. "It wasn't a bad wow by the way. It was just...wow."

"I know right?"

"I'm actually glad."

Rory blinked at him.

"It's just. In the face of death. In the loss of my dad. I needed to know that new lives were an option and now, now there is a new life growing in you." He reached out and laid his hand on her stomach without thinking about it. Suddenly he pulled his hand away. "I'm sorry I should have asked."

"No. It's your child too."

Logan was silent for a while. Suddenly Rory blurted out. "I not asking you for anything. I just wanted you to know."

Logan removed his hand rested his head in his hands again. "I want to be in the baby's life."

"You can be. As much as you want. But you don't need to. We will be fine. But Luke thought you needed to know. I mean he knows what it's like to have a kid you don't know about."

"You weren't going to tell me?" Rory couldn't see Logan's eyes because they were still covered by his hands but even without seeing his expressive eyes, she could hear the hurt in his voice.

"You were engaged."

"I was. But now I'm not." He shook his head. "I can't believe Mitcham was able to talk me into asking her to marry me. He had a talent for making things worse."

"Logan I-"

"Stop it, Rory!" Logan interrupted, Suddenly angry. "Don't do this! Don't pretend that he was something he wasn't. He manipulated me! He manipulated everyone, but he even manipulated his own son when he knew I wasn't in a state to be able to resist."

"What do you me?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Logan you need to tell me. What happened?"

"Do you really want to know?"

Rory stared at him like he was crazy "Of course."

"You said no."

"Oh, Logan I'm-"

"Don't apologize. You had every right to say no. You did. I'm not telling you this to make you feel bad Rory, I'm telling you because you asked. Do you want to know the full story?"

"If you want to tell me."

"I wouldn't say that want to is the term. It's more like I feel you have a right to know if you are going to let me be around our child."

"Know what?"

"I have a felony."

Rory was sure she must have heard wrong. "A felony?"

Logan nodded. "I was in a bad place. Before I explain I just want to make sure you know that this is not your fault."

"Okay."

"When you said no I went back to my old ways. But worse. I started drinking every day. I got into drugs. It was bad Ace."

"What drugs?"

"Any. All. Anything I could get my hands on. If I wasn't high on something I was doing something stupid. I went sky diving, base jumping. Anything I could convince Collin and Fin would be fun. We gambled money I didn't have. Even they started to worry about me. Honor wanted me to call you and see if you would still be interested in a long-distance relationship but I just couldn't do it. I wanted to but I couldn't. I was depressed, I did everything that used to make me happy and I didn't feel a thing. I was numb on the inside and abused the hell out of any substance I could get my hands on just to feel something.

I'm not proud of who I let myself become. I'm glad you didn't see me when I was like that. One night I thought I was doing coke but it was meth. I blacked out. I must have been driving in a bad state because I crashed my car. Into a house. A foot to the left and I would have killed a 4-year-old girl. No one was hurt and my dad has really good lawyers. They got me out of jail with a year-long stay at a super expensive rehab facility. I agreed to the deal immediately. I came so close to killing a little girl. A little girl. I wouldn't have minded at all if it had killed me and in fact, I almost hoped it would.

But I couldn't let it kill anyone else. I knew I needed help. Everything was kept very very private and my dad had me start dating Odette because it would be good for business and give the world something else to focus on instead of digging into my business. My dad's worst fear was that people would find out and I would ruin the Huntzberger name. He didn't even care that his son was in trouble. That I was falling apart and needed a family I could turn to but didn't have one."

"I wish I knew."

"I'm so glad you didn't. I understand if you don't want me around your kid."

"Our kid. When was the last time you did drugs?"

Logan looked her in the eyes willing her to believe him. "I went into rehab in 2009 and haven't touched anything but pot and the occasional glass of wine."

"That had to be so hard." Rory saw a tear run down Logan's cheek and reached out to wipe it away. "You did good to get out of that place."

"I don't know that I fully did. I mean I learned to enjoy things again. But I was stuck with Odette and we just weren't right together. She knew it too. She was relieved when I broke it off. If she had done it her family would have disowned her. We were apart as much as possible. I wanted you to think we were happy because I didn't want you to pity me. I couldn't stand that."

"I don't pity you. But you should know. I often wonder what would have happened if I said yes."