Chapter 22

Logan Pov

When I got home after the dinner with Dad, Rory and Tristan, I decided to call Mom and check on her. I hadn't talked to her much since the divorce (hers or mine). I poured myself a drink and sat down on my couch and dialed mom's number. She had moved out to Boston after she and Dad got divorced. "Hello?" She said when she answered.

"Hey Mom." I said.

"Logan, how are you son?" She asked me.

"Okay...dealing with some health issues. I'm assuming by that question that you've heard."

"About your accident. Yes, I did. Honor called me. She told me that she heard from Rory. How are you feeling?"

"I'm okay. A few health problems it's nothing that I can't handle. I have some other news though. Alyssa's pregnant."

"Logan, son, you know that you didn't have to turn into your father. You know, that right?" Mom said.

Was she serious? "Mom, from the time that I could walk you and Dad started training me to take over for him one day, just as he did for Grandad. How could I not turn into Dad?"

"But the affairs? That...you didn't have to do." Mom said, and she was right.

"I know Mom. What do you think I should do?" I asked mom. I knew what she was talking about. She brought it up every time I mentioned Rory. I didn't have to have an affair with every secretary that I had working for me. I didn't have to have an affair with Bobbie when I spent that week in London when Dad retired. I remember when I found out that Rory had filed for divorce.

*FLASHBACK*

I'm an idiot. Rory and I have been separated for 6 months now. I'm living in our Hartford house and Rory has moved into the New York apartment. We haven't told anyone including our families that we're separated, although I'm pretty sure that Finn knows. Every time he sees me, he looks like he wants to punch me. I was sitting at my desk at work when my phone buzzed. I picked it up to see that I had a new text.

(Rory): Hey do you wanna come over for dinner so that we can talk?

(Logan): What time?

(Rory): I should be home by 6:30

(Logan): See you then!

Maybe this was a good sign. This was the first time since the separation that Rory had contacted me. I finished what I was working on so that I could get on the road.

A little while later, I was standing in hallway of our New York apartment. I wasn't sure what the protocol for this new-found situation was. I decided to knock. If tonight was going to be bad, I didn't want to make it worse. A few minutes later, Rory opened the door. She looked amazing. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans and an old Yale t-shirt. "Sorry, I was changing." She said. "Come in."

I walked inside the apartment. "Thanks." I said. I looked around the apartment. I noticed that Rory hadn't taken down any of the pictures of us, but she had added some. There were pictures of her, Steph and Honor. She looked happy in the pictures. "You look happy in this one. When was this?"

She walked over and looked at the picture that I was pointing at. "A few weeks ago. We went out to the Hamptons. I bought a house out there." She said.

"Oh." I said. I walked over to the couch and sat down. Rory came and sat beside me. "Ror, I miss you. Come home."

"Logan..." She said.

I grabbed her hand with mine. "Baby, this is ridiculous. Just pack a bag and come home with me."

Rory pulled her hand away. She reached over to the end table next to her and grabbed an envelope and handed it to me. "Logan, we need to talk." She said as I opened the envelope.

"Divorce papers?"

"Yes."

I skimmed through the first page. "Come on, Ror! Don't do this." I said.

"You didn't give me any other option. I gave you chance after chance with the cheating and the affairs...but you have completely turned into your dad. I can't." She said. She stood up and walked to the other side of the room. "Logan, you promised me that you wouldn't turn into him. And what happened...I found out that three months after we got married...you cheated!"

I stood up. "Who told you that?" I asked.

"It doesn't matter."

"'Of course, it does." I said. Then I thought about it for a second. There were very few people that knew about that incident. Then it hit me. "It was Finn wasn't it?"

"Logan, it doesn't matter. What matters now is that I need you to sign these papers so that I can move on with my life." Rory said.

"Rory..."

*END OF FLASHBACK*

I hated that day. I hated the day that Rory gave me those papers.