Chapter 148

**Logan**

I couldn't stay upstairs anymore, I needed to come down and get some ice for my nose and some painkillers. The moment he walked in on us I knew what was going to happen, I didn't want to hit him back, I needed to de-escalate the situation for Megan. When he called her his daughter it confirmed my suspicions, it also meant one less job for David as I had asked him to look into Brett a little more for me.

When I came down I had heard Megan crying and then walked to the kitchen to see her walking out. Brett was behind her trying to come after her.

I look towards him as I hold Megan in my arms. He scowls at me and looks away.

"You need some sleep," I say to Megan, she shakes her head. "Take one of your tablets to help you and then whatever it is you're discussing you can discuss in the morning," I suggest. She had moved on from the strong sleeping meds to the more natural ones a few weeks ago. She was in talks with her therapist to lower her anxiety meds and depression meds. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not though.

"C'mon," I say walking to the kitchen to get her meds from the cupboard. Her uncle watches us as I take out her box of medication.

"Are they all yours?" he asks her. She nods and fills a glass up with water.

"I don't take them all anymore," she says, and then looks at him. "Just the important ones,"

"Which are?" he asks. She doesn't answer and just takes the bottle of natural sleeping tablets out.

"She only takes her antidepressant and anti-anxiety meds now, the sleeping ones she takes when she needs them,"

"Oh," he says.

"And the pill," she adds, "not that it matters when I can't get pregnant," she says with a roll of her eyes and then takes her tablets.

"What do you mean?" he asks. She sighs and shakes her head as she walks out of the kitchen. He looks at me for an explanation.

"Jonathan got her pregnant a lot and she would miscarry every time because of the beatings, she now will have trouble getting pregnant, it's a bit of a touchy subject for her."

"So that's what she means when she says he took everything," he says sitting on one of the stools. I nod and put her pills back.

"Why was she upset?" I ask as I go to pour myself a stiffer drink. I pour him one too and then go to the freezer to take out the bag of peas and some ice. "Is it because you're her dad?" I ask placing some ice into his glass and then in mine and then I hold the bag of peas to my face.

"No, at least I don't think so," he explains and then continues to tell me what they had been discussing. What he has said does explain the anger Benjamin has towards Megan. It always confused me as to why he directed all of his anger to her.

"That's a lot to find out in one night," I say. Then Carl walks in "Is she asleep?"

"Yeah Max is with her, she made David stay in case she has a nightmare" he states "Are we playing nice down here?" he asks. I glare at him and look at Brett who I now should refer to as her father.

"How long have you two been seeing each other?" he asks.

"Since February," I answer.

"She says you make her happy," I smile at that "do you love her?"

"Yeah," I'm not going to beat around the bush with this. "I think I've loved her from the moment I had a conversation with her, I know that the Megan I met the first time around probably wasn't her true self but every day I see something new about her and I fall even harder for her," I pause "I'm not going to sit here and makeup excuses, I love her and there's nothing I can really do to change that," I explain.

"You sound like me when I would talk about her mom, just in a different accent," he says with a small smirk. "Just don't hurt her,"

"You're ok with us being together?" I ask

"There's not much I can do, she's 18, she was 18 when this started and you're resigning at the end of the school year, I can see you care for her and I think if I did anything she'd hate me,"

"She wouldn't hate you,"

"She would, she loves you, I can tell that with how she defended you down here, whether she's ready to accept that I'm not sure," I wasn't so sure about that. I honestly believe she'd stop herself from loving me if she has to.