Shelby's Awakening: Legacy Series: The Beasley's Book Three by Leila Lacey

 
    CHAPTER ONE
     
    “Why are you standing out here?” Lance said to Logan as he walked up behind him. Logan had been standing outside the doors of Shelby’s physical therapy session for the past twenty minutes trying to figure out if he should go in and risk another rejection from Shelby. It had been two months since Shelby’s accident. The pain and fear of that dreadful day still hit Logan like a ton of bricks every time he thought about it. He had almost lost her forever, and while she still was not allowing him in her life, at least he still had hope.
    “Why are you always sneaking around like a woman looking for clues to find out if her husband is cheating?” Logan said to his brother looking away from the small window that was in the door of the physical therapy room.
    “I am not sneaking and that description was disturbingly detailed,” Logan said looking at his brother out of the corner of his eye.
    “Go talk to her you , big pussy!” Lance said poking Logan in the back.
    “Alright ,” Logan said looking over at his brother. “You are one step away from writing a check your ass can’t cash.”
    “I am just kidding with you. Why are you in such a bad mood?” Lance asked him.
    “Because I want to be in there supporting her, but because of some bad decisions and her disgust with me, I am here talking to you!” Logan said.
    “So your resolution is to stalk her?” Lance said to his brother. “That makes sense,” he chuckled shaking his head.
    “Why are you here?” Logan said . “What is this?” Grabbing his brother’s shirt collar to pull it back a little, he could see four distinct scratches on his neck. “Have you been fucking cougars again?” Logan said chuckling. Smacking his hand away, Lance adjusted his collar again.
    “Fuck You! If I had not known her all my l ife, I would swear that she was a cougar,” Lance said to his brother. Savannah and Lance had been sleeping together since the night of the accident.
    “I do not know how you ca n sleep with that heartless cow,” Logan said scratching his chin. He had started to let his beard grow in the last couple of weeks. He had been so worried about Shelby and working overtime at the shop and keeping up with Gia that he had pretty much given up on hygiene. Taking a step forward and sniffing in the air, Lance frowned and stepped back from his brother. “Dude, you smell like a sweaty nut sack.  When was the last time you took a shower?”
    “Shut up!” Logan said. Lifting his shirt and sniffing down, he frowned and placed his hand on his chest like he could lock the smell inside his shirt.
    “You are not going to go in there smelling like that , are you? She just started to make great strides. You want to set her back?” Lance said laughing and waving his hand in front of his face.
    “I guess I should have gone home and showered before I came,” Logan said. He looked through the glass of the door watching Shelby making great strides in her physical therapy. “I just really wanted to see her.”
    When the doctors sat down with them all and told them the extent of Shelby’s injuries , they had all been afraid that they would lose her. The surgeons had said Shelby had suffered a fractured skull, a ruptured spleen, a lacerated kidney and a Lumbar Spinal Cord injury that they had thought would cause her to be paralyzed. But as Shelby had healed and shown how strong and amazing she was, they had realized that it had only caused weakness in her lower extremities and with physical therapy she could gain full use of her legs again. Because of the trauma to her head, she could not remember what had happened in the accident or who she was with. No one had wanted to tell her that Zach Walker had died in the accident, and that they had crashed no one was sure why including the Highway Patrol that had investigated it. Logan had felt guilty that she was in that car with that man every day and if he was still alive, Logan would have killed him