Chapter Three: You're Everything

Before I went back to Logan's to knock some sense into him I changed into my cat suit for two reasons. One, I need to be able to move around his apartment without being seen, gives me the element of surprise, and, two, I've seen the way he looks at me in this thing. I'm gonna need all the help I can get. I manage to pick the lock easily. I have to remind him to get a better system. My feline DNA allows me to blend in with the shadows, and I stealthily move around the apartment to find him staring out the window. I can make out his reflection in the glass, he looks so sad, so removed.

I step out of the shadows and take a deep breath. Here goes nothing. "So, I see you finished your phone call."

"Max I told you I don't want to talk to you right now," Logan replies not taking his eyes off the window.

"No, you actually said that you were busy and you couldn't talk. You never said that you didn't want to talk to me. But that's all right, because I want to talk to you. All you have to do is listen to me. Think you can handle that?"

I take his silence as some sort of acceptance and launch into the speech that I practiced on the way over. "I've known you for almost a year now, Logan. I know how your mind works; well actually I thought I knew how your mind worked. Original Cindy had to buy me a clue."

"Look Max, save your little speech. Do me a favor and leave."

"Sorry Logan, you can't get rid of me that easily. You opened up your home and your heart to me. You cared for me. And you know what, somewhere along the way I started to feel things for you that I have never felt for anyone in my life. You're stuck with me."

"Max, leave. I'll only slow you down."

I stalk across the room and spin him around to face me. I am totally loving his shocked expression; just wait until you get a load of my next move baby. I sit down on his lap and extract my list from inside my jacket. "You don't deserve me is that what you think? Well let me tell you something. I don't deserve you, want to hear some of my reasons. I have about twenty pages here. Let's start with you. Reason one of why I want to be with you: you accept me for me. Reason two: you care. Three, you challenge me. Four, you're intelligent. Five, you have this amazing body. Six, you have these eyes that make me melt. Seven—"

"Max," Logan interrupts. "I don't need to hear all of this."

"No, I think you do. I think you've forgotten about all of the things that make you Logan Cale. You are not just a pair of legs. I didn't fall in love with your physical appearance, although that is a wonderful quality. I fell in love with you, your mind, your heart, your soul. You are everything. You think that you don't deserve me, I don't deserve you." I tell him looking into his eyes. "I have a much longer list for that. I'm a killer. I'm a science project gone wrong. I'm poison. I'm…"

Logan places a finger over my lips to silence me. "You are none of those things Max. You deserve the best in life. You are perfect. You are smart, funny, beautiful. You are everything that is good in my life."

I gently pull his finger from my mouth and hold his hand, "Then why won't you let me love you?"

"Because I'm scared that I'll just slow you down. That in a few months Zach will come along and you'll go off with him. I can't watch you leave with him again. It broke my heart the last time, I can't go through that again."

"I don't love Zach." I tell him honestly, "Not the way you think I do or the way he wants me to. He's my brother. You are the one that I want to wake up with of a morning and go to sleep with at night. You make me feel free. When you kiss me or touch me or even look at me, like you are now, I feel like I'm flying. No one has ever made me feel that way before Logan."

I can see the tears beginning to form in Logan's eyes, as he begins to speak. "I still don't deserve you, but God I want to spend the rest of my life trying to prove to you that I do."

"You told me that I deserve the best in life Logan, and for me that's you. You are all that I want."

"I love you, Max." Logan says as he leans closer to me.

"I love you, too." I tell him as our lips finally meet.