Remember 3 chapters a day. So go back to Chapter 20 to read from the last update! If not you will be lost!!! <3 Another reminder there will be smut for a few more chapters. If you don't like that, skip it. No mention of Condoms/birth control. No babies in this book!

"Sorry but none of the roads are open. Snow plows can't even get through until late tonight or tomorrow."

"It's Christmas Eve." I said like that would make any difference.

"We're sorry. We can give you guys some vouchers for dining." She sent me a sympathetic smile. I know there was nothing she could do about the roads being cleared but it still sucked. We were going to be here on Christmas Eve.

"Thank you." Logan shot her a smile as she handed him some vouchers. Might as well take advantage of getting some food.

With a hand on my lower back Logan gently steered me away from the front desk. Behind us was a line of people probably asking the same thing.

When we got out of the shower this morning it was only 10 o'clock which would have been a good time for us to hit the road. But as soon as we opened the blinds and saw the 6 inches of new snow we knew our chances of leaving were slim to none. Now the lady just confirmed we were stuck here for another night.

A part of me was relieved. It gave Logan and I another day together, which I wasn't complaining about. But the fact it was Christmas Eve and we wouldn't be able to be around family. I wanted Logan to experience his first Lynn/Mikelson Christmas.

"You should probably call your brother and let him know." Logan suggested as we headed back to the restaurant inside the hotel to get some late breakfast.

I grimaced at having to call my brother. He already yelled at me this morning because I hadn't answered my phone. It died last night and as soon as I plugged it in I had at least 20 missed calls and 30 unread texts. Almost all were from my brother wondering where the hell I was. I had a feeling Aubrey had to stop him from getting in the car to come find me.

When I finally called him back a little bit ago explaining about my phone he gave me the what for. You would almost think Knox was my father and not my brother with how he was acting.

"You do it." I shoved my phone towards him.

"Why me?" Logan shook his head pushing my phone back towards me.

"Cause you're his best friend."

"You're his sister." When I narrowed my eyes at Logan he just shrugged like that was reason enough.

"Screw you." I muttered.

"You already did." He nudged me with a smirk. I tried to keep my glare in place but my lips twitched. We've done more than just screwed.

Pulling up my contacts I hovered over my brothers name. Seeing another name below it I didn't even hesitate in hitting call. The phone only rang a few times before they picked up.

"Hey Liv."

I smiled at the voice of my brother wife, Aubrey.

"Hey Aub. Happy Christmas Eve." I could hear her moving in the background as if she was leaving the room. I bet a hundred bucks my brother was in that room.

"Happy Christmas Eve. So I take it this call isn't a good one since you are calling me?" I sighed. She knew me so well.

"There's no way we are going to make it tonight. There's at least 6 new inches of snow and none of the snow plows can get through to clean the roads until tonight."

"Well shit." I snorted at the way she swore. "That's okay we'd rather you be safe. As much we want you here we'll be okay."

"Including my brother in that?" Aubrey laughed through the phone.

"He can be a handful but don't worry about him. I can handle him." If anyone can talk my brother down its Aubrey.

"See this is why I called you."

"Yeah cause I'm your favorite." I grinned at her words. She was my favorite. "Keep us updated. Hopefully you guys can get here tomorrow."

"I will. Maybe they'll get the roads cleared later this afternoon."

"Glad you have Logan with you." There was something in her tone that made me pause.

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing. Just glad you have each other." Again that underlying meaning I couldn't quite get. "Anyway I better go. The kids want to go ice skating. Call us later." I heard a familiar voice in the background. Smirking I quickly rattled off a goodbye.

"Sounds good. Good luck trying to tell Knox. See you guys later." I hit 'end call' before my brother could steal the phone from Aubrey. She can be the one to tell him.

"Everything good?" Logan asked as the hostess lead us to a table.

"All good. Aubrey can tell Knox we won't be there until tomorrow."

"Sorry, we can't be there today."

"It's okay. It isn't your fault. At least we get another day here." Another full uninterrupted day with Logan did sound pretty amazing.

"Think your brother will be upset?" I could tell the topic of my brother was not one either of us wanted to be having. The looming feeling of him not approving of Logan and I lingered around us, even when we tried to ignore it.

"It's Knox. He's always upset about something I do." I waved him off.

Once our coffees came and we ordered some food I turned back to Logan. He was already staring at me making my cheeks turn pink. I shouldn't be blushing from just a look, not after what we just did in the shower yet here I was.

"So," I cleared my throat. "Do you have any siblings? I don't think I've ever asked." There was still so much about Logan I didn't know. I made a silent vow right then to learn more about him and his past before Christmas tomorrow.

Logan was quiet for a good minute making me think he wasn't going to answer. Which just made my curiosity even worse.

"I had a brother, Blake. He was four years younger than me." Was. I caught the past tense of his words. My chest squeezing painfully.

"What was he like?" My voice dropped almost to a whisper. I didn't expect him to answer that question. Honestly I thought he'd tell me to mind my own business but he did the exact opposite of that.

"He was always the life of the party. Even when he was little he'd go around making people laugh. He had everyone wrapped around his finger." Logan spoke, a soft smile playing at the edges of his lips. But I didn't miss the sadness that appeared in his eyes.

"While I was the more moody brother."

"You? Moody? Never." I joked, wanting to erase the sadness in his eyes. His lips twitched as he rolled his eyes playfully.

"Blake was the light hearted brother. Never took anything too seriously. Always cracking jokes and had this uncanny ability to make everyone feel good wherever he went."

I reached across the table and laid my hand on top of his. I had a feeling he never spoke about his brother and knew better than to say anything that would make him shut down.

"He was coming home from a graduation party when he got in a car accident." Logan's voice hallowed out. "Got hit by another car full of teenagers that came from another party. The driver was drunk yet somehow everyone in that car survived while my brother didn't."

I heart split in two at his story. I may know what its like to lose your parents but not a sibling. If I lost Knox I don't know what I would have done.

"I was overseas when I got the call." Right when I thought it couldn't get worse.

"Logan." I whispered squeezing his hand tightly. I couldn't begin to imagine the pain he must have been in. Not being there and hearing his brother passed away. No wonder he never talked about him. It was probably too painful.

"It was a long time ago." Logan went to brush it off but I shook my head.

"Doesn't mean it still doesn't hurt." My voice was soft. I slowly lifted my gaze to his. "Time doesn't always heal wounds. You just learn to deal with the pain." I knew that first hand.

"Liv-"

"I'm not going to pretend like I know what you went through." I interrupted him. "But I know what it's like to lose someone you love with no warning. Of how you wish you could go back and change just one thing to prevent it." Memories of my parents flashing through my head. "But you can't change something you had no control over."

He was silent as I spoke. Sitting there cross from me looking everything like the broody man I've come to know.

"If you ever want to talk about it I'm always here. Always." And I meant every word. There was more to the story but I wasn't going to push him. Not after he just opened up the way he did. One day I hope he'll be more comfortable in sharing more with me but for now I'll take what he can give.

"Thank you." Was all he said as he flipped our hands over on the table and laced our fingers together. Giving it a squeeze. Looking into his eyes they said more than he ever could with words.

I wasn't planning on going anywhere. If he didn't know it by now he was going too soon.

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"Well, what should we do now?"

It was now around 2 o'clock in the afternoon and we already did everything there was to do. There wasn't much to do when it was snowing outside. The hotel only had so much stuff to look at. We couldn't even go swimming in the inside pool because we didn't bring swimming suits.

"I have an idea." Logan said from his place on the bed.

Ever since this morning when he told me about his brother he's seemed...lighter. Like telling me got a weight off his shoulders. His eyes seemed lighter than they did this morning.

"And whats that?" I wasn't sure I liked the smirk on his face as he sat up.

"Strip poker."

"You want to play strip poker?" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Too scared to play?" I narrowed my eyes at his taunting. He knew I never backed down from a challenge. Especially one where the other person thinks they'll win before we even start.

"No. I'm more than fine to play." Winning and making Logan strip, hell yes. "What are the rules?"

"The person who loses the hand has to take off a piece of clothing. Sound fair?" Any chance to see Logan naked I was going to take.

"Sounds good." I smirked to myself. I was so going to win. Getting up I grabbed the deck of cards we left out from yesterday. I also wasn't lost on me that I had more clothing on than he did. For once I was glad it was freezing and I was wearing layers.

Climbing back onto the bed I crossed my legs and sat across from Logan. I squirmed a little knowing where this was going to lead. You would think I'd be tired and sore from last night and this morning but I was far from that. I felt like a cat in heat, ready to go at any moment.

Logan made me feel insatiable.

Shuffling the cards I started the game. I wiped my face of my smirk when I lifted the cards to face me. Had to have my poker face on so he didn't know what my next move was. I won plenty of hands yesterday, more than Logan, so I was pretty confident I could win this.

"Ready?" Logan lifted a perfect brow in my direction.

"Ready."

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"You are so cheating!" I groaned in frustration. "You weren't this good last night." With a glare in Logan direction I pulled off my sweater. Leaving me in my underwear, socks, and bra.

The idiot was somehow winning. He has only had to take his shirt off which wasn't fair at all. Not when I was sitting here on the bed practically naked. Freezing my ass off.

"Maybe I faked it."

I held back an eye roll and snatched the cards from the bed. When I agreed to play this dumb ass game I was so sure I'd win. That's apparently come back to bite me in the ass. I really needed to get my ass into gear and get Logan to start taking his clothes off.

With my competitive side rearing its head again I shuffled the cards with a huff.

"Always such a sore loser?" Logan had the balls to say.

"I'm not a sore loser."

"Uh huh. Clearly." He wasn't wrong though.

"I grew up with Knox what do you expect." Even though he was older than me by quite a bit the two of us would do everything together when I was younger. Ride our bikes to the park down the street, play board games which turned into video games, and then eventually turned into wrestling. Or well Knox thinking it was funny to tackle me to the ground and put me in a headlock.

I slowly became competitive in everything we did. Especially when he started to get older and didn't hang out with me as much. And then when he went to the military all of that disappeared. Wasn't until we met Aubrey and her family and we started our gingerbread house contests. Now every Christmas we fight to get first place.

"You and Knox are really close."

"Now we are." Logan looked at me slightly confused. It was almost comical we were having a serious conversation when I was half naked and in the middle of a game of strip poker.

"When Knox went into the Marine's it was hard. He was gone for so long and between the little visits we didn't really see much of each other. Then when he came home permanently after my parents we kinda didn't know how to be around each other."

The first few months after Knox got back home we didn't really know how to act. I wasn't the little kid he remembered me being. I was almost 17 and going to graduate high school. I was literally almost a full grown adult and Knox had to suddenly 'raise' me.

"We were still a bit awkward when we met Aubrey. She made things a lot better between us." Aubrey has done more for us than she'd ever know.

"Aubrey's good for Knox. He always had a stick up his ass with our team."

"Sounds about right." The two of us shared a grin.

"Now enough stalling. Deal the cards."

"I wasn't stalling! You brought it up." I huffed, dealing.

"You can just take the rest off and we don't have to continue." The naughty look he sent almost made me do just that. But I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of giving up. Not yet.

"You just want me naked." I narrowed my eyes.

"And?"

"If you think I'll just strip because you asked you have another thing coming." That was a lie but he didn't need to know that. All he had to do was look at me and I'd drop my panties.

"Oh is that right?" Putting his hands on the bed Logan leaned forward towards me. The muscles in his arms and chest flexed making my mouth go dry.

"Yes." I stuck my chin out pretending like he wasn't affecting me.

"I'd believe you if you hadn't squeezed your thighs together." Logan's voice was low as his eyes darted down my body then back up to my lips. I felt naked under his gaze despite having a few pieces of clothing on.

"I'm cold. So would you if you were half naked."

"Oh yeah." I gulped as Logan basically crawled towards me on the bed. Those big arms on both sides of my legs, his face inches from mine. Only Logan and I can go from having a serious conversation to this.

"Yep." My voice didn't come out as strong as I would have liked. The amusement that crossed Logan's face he knew I was lying through my teeth.

He kept moving until I had no other choice but to lay back, him hovering over me. He wasn't even touching me yet my body felt like it was on fire. I've been attractive to guys before. Seen plenty of hot guys on campus. The guys I have 'dated' weren't ugly by any means but what I feel with Logan was unlike anything else I've ever experienced.

It was borderline scary how much I felt when I was around him. I for sure thought I was over him while he was gone for three years but the past month has just intensified the feelings I've had for years. Of course sleeping with him hasn't helped but what I felt years ago was puppy love. This was far from that.

I wasn't going to let myself overthink any of it though. Not right now. Not when I had Logan right in front of me, looking down at me like he was seconds away from devouring me. I can think about the rest later.

Right now I had the man of my dreams hovering over me. My lips quirked up as I brought my leg up and hooked it around his hip. With a tug I pulled him towards me until his crotch was pressed against mine.

"I think you are more affected than I am." What was pressed against me was nice and hard already. I knew what was underneath those sweat pants. Just the thought of it making my core pulse. Screw the game. I needed him inside of me now.

"Of course I am. You sitting here in barely anything is enough to drive a man wild." Logan whispered. He grazed his lips softly across my cheek. Just that touch was enough for my back to arch off the bed.

"Is this you admitting I'm irresistible?" I breathed as he moved his lips down my jaw and neck.

"You've been irresistible since the day I met you."

"Logan." I wasn't at all ashamed at the way I begged. When it came to Logan there was not much I wouldn't do.

His lips made contact with the base of my neck. As soon as he sealed his lips against my skin I knew he was giving me a hickey. Something I haven't ever gotten. By time I dated in college guys didn't give hickey's or at least none of the guys I was with.

I couldn't stop the giggle from escaping my lips; my mind immediately thinking about Twilight. He was sucking my neck like a vampire.

Logan pulled back and stared down at me like I was crazy. I pressed my lips together but I kept imagining Edward Cullen.

"S-sorry." I giggled. "You're...you're Edward."

Logan frowned, still hovering over me.

"Edward."

"Expect you don't sparkle." I grinned widely picturing Logan sparkling shirtless in the sun.

"Did you just compare me to the fictional vampire that all teens swooned over years ago?" I raised an eyebrow at the fact he knew who Edward Cullen was.

"You know Twilight."

"I wasn't born yesterday." He rolled his eyes.

"Didn't it come out when you were in the Marine's?"

"There wasn't much to do other than watch tv sometimes. It happened to be on. A lot." I giggled again picturing grown men who could kill someone sitting around watching Twilight. Best image ever.

"That's cute." He narrowed his eyes at my words.

"Cute?"

"Yep." I grinned even wider. "Were you Team Jacob or Team Edward?" I genuinely wanted to know.

"Are we seriously going to talk about this right now?"

"Is there a better time?"

"Maybe when my dick isn't pressed against your pussy." Logan suggested. I shifted my hips just enough to rub against him. "Olivia." The warning in his voice was clear as day. Too bad I don't like to listen.

"See I was more Team Jacob than Edward. The werewolves were just hotter." With each word I found my hips grinding against him. His breathing was getting heavy and the thing pressed against me was getting harder by the minute.

I kept on rambling about Twilight while teasing him. With each passing second I could see he was moments away from snapping. I knew I should stop but I couldn't. Not when I was having so much fun.

He was having fun making me lose at strip poker so it was only fair I returned the favor. Just as I started talking about the final movie and how Jacob imprinted on the daughter, Logan snapped. I saw his jaw clenched seconds before his hand came up and wrapped around my throat.

"You're going to pay for that." 

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My poor baby Logan. Gosh he's been through so much! His little brother passed away while he was in the military which is just heartbreaking. No wonder he is a bit closed off. Slowly we are learning more and more about him as we go. Right when we think he know what he's like something else comes in. 

I'm sorry but I cackled when writing Olivia talking about Twilight. I'm pretty sure it was on TV and that's why I put it in but it was funny. You can be in the 'moment' and still giggle and have fun. Also....where you Team Jacob or Team Edward? Team Jacob all the way baby! :P

I hope you guys liked these three chapters!! We are nearing the end guys. Crazy to think we are since we just started but that's what three chapters a day does. Plus Christmas is literally around the corner. 

I love you guys so much! Seriously I can't thank you enough for taking the time to read this book! It means the absolute world to me that you guys will stick around each day and read my stuff. Wish I could hug you all right now. 

Love you guys!! I'll see you tomorrow!! 

<3 <3 <3

-Ken

P.S Sugar Cookies or Chocolate Chip Cookies?