No, she wouldn’t have to. As angry as Logan appeared, I knew he wouldn’t do anything that might hurt my aunt. Jeff, on the other hand….
Actually, the hacker surprised me. Although he’d retreated slightly, he did stop when he was more or less out of arm’s reach. “We want to hear that explanation, Logan. So what is it?”
A second passed, then another. And another. Logan’s brow was knotted, his gaze turned inward, as if he was wrestling with some part of himself. Worry began to churn away in me, roiling my stomach. “Logan….” I began, then stopped myself. As awful as what Jeff had discovered might be, I had to believe that Logan knew nothing of any of it. He might be a pawn, but an innocent one. As to the idea that the aliens had somehow engineered him to be a match for me…well, I’d think abo
