Chapter 71: Taking Nick Home
Logan's POV
Nick's room smelled like lavender.
I noticed it the moment I carried him in from the car, still half-asleep and compliant in the way children were when exhaustion overrode their independence, not protesting or putting up a fuss which made my job easier tonight because we were both raw and exhausted.
I laid him down, pulled the covers up, and stood there in the dim light of his nightlight while the smell registered to me as i realized it, i hadn't taken notice before, due to stress but now i could smell it—faint, clean, botanical. Not from anything in the room now, like a new scent that Mrs Peterson had dropped to make it better but from years of it.
From whatever Sedona had done in this room, while looking after Nick, making sure his clothes w
