Melody (Logan 1)

"I'm a mess," I said.

"You're not. You're bright and pretty.

Everything is going to be all right." He said it with

such assurance, wondered if everyone else could see

my future clearer than I could. "Don't feel bad about

what happened. Guys like that fool girls every day,"

he added bitterly.

I thought about Laura and Robert Royce and

imagined that was what Cary meant.

"I read a letter Robert Royce wrote to Laura," I

confessed.

"That garbage?" Even in the dim light, I could

see his frown.

"It didn't seem like garbage, Cary. I read only

one, but I thought he was sincere."

"He knew how to use sincerity to get what he

wanted," Cary said sharply. "He was a conniving,

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; sneaky--"

"How can you be so sure?"

"I can," he said firmly.

"I'm not even confident about people I've

known all my life, people I've seen on a daily basis.

You can't possibly know what things Laura and

Robert said to each other, what they told and

promised each other, and from what I've learned about

her, she must have been a very bright person, Cary.

Maybe you were just--"

"Just what?"

"Overly worried. It's only natural, I suppose.