Logan's Rattler by A. Jarrett (best books for 20 year olds txt) 📕

it was for love. Whatever Rhett felt for him wasn’t love. This bordered on obsession.

Rhett reached out his fingers to caress them down Logan’s cheek.

Logan flinched at the first touch. It was gentle, but it didn’t stomp the fear building in his stomach.

Oh, my love. After all this time we will finally be together again, Lindsay.

Huh? Logan mentally questioned what the hell Rhett was talking about. Who was Lindsay? He could feel the love rolling off of Rhett.

So who ever Lindsay was, he meant a great deal to Rhett.

“Who’s Lindsay, Rhett?” Logan kept his voice calm as if he was talking to a wild animal. Because in all essence that was what Rhett was, a vicious, crazed animal.

“You are, my love.” Rhett ran his hands through Logan’s hair in a loving manner, still with a goofy grin on his face. “I know right now you don’t remember me, but I have friends who will help get your memory back. We can be together again, isn’t that great?”

Logan shook his head no on instinct. Everything the man just said was crazy talk. He wasn’t whoever the hell this Lindsay person was.

Why did Rhett think he was him?

“Rhett, please, you need to stop this now,” Logan pleaded. “I’m with Finn. We’ve already mated. I’m not Lindsay.” Tears trailed down his cheeks. He prayed what he was saying was getting through to the other man.

The hand in Logan’s hair began to tighten, and he shrunk back as pain shot through his scalp. “Don’t you ever say that name to me again. You hear me?” Rhett shouted in his face. “I will forgive you for letting that snake defile you, but I will not stand for listening to you talk about him. He’s nothing.” He banged Logan’s head against the tree, the bark digging into his head.

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“I’m sorry,” Logan whined. It was his only defense. “I just don’t remember who Lindsay is. Can you please tell me about him.” Maybe if he let Rhett tell him about this Lindsay, he could use the information to get himself out of this mess.

The hard lines on Rhett’s face softened, and a smile graced his lips. “Lindsay was my mate. The love of my life.”

“That sounds sweet. Where is he now?” Logan had a sinking suspicion about Lindsay’s whereabouts.

“He died.” Rhett’s voice lowered. The pain was etched into the man’s face.

“How?” Logan wasn’t trying to be morbid by asking such personal questions, but he had to know.

“A fire. The farm that cornered ours caught fire, and Lindsay, being the good man he was, ran into the blazing house to rescue the family that lived there.” Rhett turned his tear-filled eyes up at Logan.

“He saved the man and woman and two of their three children.

Lindsay ran back inside to save their infant daughter.” Rhett drew out a long pause. “The house collapsed on him. Lindsay and the baby both died.”

Logan didn’t realize he had started to cry until he tasted the salty wetness on his lips. He could literally feel Rhett’s sadness. It was almost unbearable. How could he have lived so long like this?

“But we don’t have to think about that anymore.” A smile formed on Rhett’s lips. “I’ve found you, and we can be together again. For always.”

It was saddening to hear about Lindsay and the baby both dying, but that didn’t change the fact that he wasn’t Lindsay and Logan was in love with Finn. “Rhett, I’m not Lindsay.” Logan hoped he could make the other man see that.

“No, you’re not. But you’re the closest thing to him, and since you’re a direct descendant of Lindsay’s, the connection is there to put his soul into your body.”

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What the fuck? Logan stared into Rhett’s eyes and could see that the man believed every word he spoke. If what Rhett said was true, then Lindsay was a relative of some sorts to Logan. But it still didn’t explain how Rhett planned on putting Lindsay’s soul into Logan’s body.

“How do you plan on accomplishing this? You can’t just hope Lindsay’s soul jumps into my body.” Logan tried to be the voice of reason.

“With the help of a witch.” Rhett smiled wildly at him. “They said if I helped them, they would help me in return. And so far, they’ve kept their word.