Chapter Sixty

Back at the station, Veronica had given her statement which Luke corroborated as much as he was able. Carrie's death was accidental. The cover up was concocted by Sean and Lou with help in its execution from Norman Phipps. The evidence had been tampered with. And once one mistake was made, their entire story began to unravel.

Norman was arrested. Sean was dead. Lou was in critical condition after the crash. Weevil was released, Logan's charges dropped, and all that had seemed to be wrong with the world was suddenly going right.

Veronica was snuggled tight against Logan's side, her hands playing across his chest as they lay in his bed at The Vagabond. She smiled contentedly before lifting to kiss her man tenderly on the lips. Then she rested her head on his shoulder and sighed as she said, "I don't think I've ever been so happy in my life."

"I definitely have not," Logan confirmed, kissing the top of her head, "Guess that means we deserve each other, huh?"

"That's one way of putting it," Veronica laughed before asking, "Sooo...what do we do now?"

"Now," Logan said, tapping his index finger on her nose, "Now we learn to live together. We laugh, we love, we learn, we live. We make each moment of each day count."

"Thank you, Loganwankenobi, for waxing philosophical for me," Veronica teased, "But I kinda meant job-wise, house-wise, any other kind of wise I can think of. What about that?"

Logan laughed and tickled her sides before responding, "House-wise is easy. Stay here. Job-wise...well, I've got an idea about that but I'm not sure if you'll like it."

"Why wouldn't I like it?" Veronica asked, her keen blue eyes wide and curious.

"It would mean working for me," Logan responded, an almost shy light of humor in his dark liquid gaze.

"Oh?" Veronica queried, sitting up in the bed and looking down at him before saying with a grin, "I promise not to dismiss it out of hand if you just tell me what you're thinking."

Chuckling and sitting up himself, Logan said as casually as he could manage, "Well, the Casa could probably use a good lawyer, possibly even a PI," he paused to let that sink in, grinning at her spectacularly as he teased, "No more office in the Neptune High girls bathroom. First priority, clients of the Casa. But professionally, I can share, so if you want to take other cases, I'm cool with that. Personally, though? I've finally got you back. You'll be hard pressed to get me to share you, probably even with your dad, Mac, Wallace, Weevil, whoever. You've been out of my sight far too long and after getting yourself kidnapped?" he raised his brows before continuing with a smirk, "Expect to be over-protected."

Veronica laughed and shook her head, "You know that's not going to work. The over-protecting and not letting me out of your sight piece. The lawyer slash PI stuff at the Casa...that's kind of intriguing. Tell me more," she prompted.

"Well, troubled teens are likely to have legal problems," Logan explained, pointing to himself with a self-deprecating smirk, "Case in point. I figure, having you on staff to do what you do, I can both keep an eye on you and let you do your thing."

Pursing her lips and narrowing her eyes as if deep in thought, Veronica finally started to nod slowly, "It's officially under consideration."

"Good," Logan said agreeably before adding with a sexy twinkle in his eyes, "Then I would also like to propose we spend the next forty-eight hours getting," he cleared his throat and grinned, "reacquainted. Food delivery, of course, goes without saying. Must have nourishment for marathon love-making."

Veronica laughed and punched his arm, her heart jumping to her throat as her pulse began to race. Sounding slightly embarrassed but giddy and excited at the same time, she said, "Now that is an offer I absolutely cannot refuse!" Impulsively she leaned up to kiss him deeply, her mouth meeting his soft and full of promise.

He met her kiss with a thrilling passion of his own, exploring and worshipping her body as he began to make love to her. He marveled in her perfection and she thrilled at his embrace. Together they reached higher heights and deeper depths than they'd ever thought possible on their roller coaster of LoVe.