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forward. There were a couple of guys trying to get close with their cameras, but he ignored them and just focused on propelling Candace away.
    “We’ll be fine once we get to the car,” he told her, his palm firm on her shoulder.
    “They’ll follow us straight to my hotel.”
    “You want to go somewhere no one can bother you?” he asked.
    “Please.”
    “Then I’ll give them the slip and we can head straight to my place. No one will ever find you there.”
    Logan didn’t know why he said it, why he’d even thought to take her back to his house, but he had and now there was no going back. The last time he’d let a woman into his home had been...Logan swallowed and moved faster, listening to Candace’s heels as they beat a rhythm against the sidewalk. When he’d admitted to his friends that it had been a long time since he’d let a woman into his life, he hadn’t been exaggerating.
    He’d enjoyed tonight because he hadn’t let himself dwell on the past, and if he wanted to survive having Candace at his place, then that’s what he’d have to keep doing. There was no point thinking about the woman who’d hurt him, or anything else about what had happened in the past few years.
    For months, he’d been telling himself that it was time to move on with his life, to put his past behind him, but some things were easy to think and a whole lot harder to put into practice. Especially when the darkness of his memories crept into his brain just when he was least expecting them.
     

CHAPTER FOUR
    C ANDACE COULD FEEL her heart racing—it was like her pulse was thumping in her head it sounded so loud. Fleeing the paparazzi and heading for Logan’s place had seemed like the safe option when he’d suggested it, but now she was starting to panic. It was one thing to have dinner with the man in a public place, but going back to his house? Not something she’d ever usually do, especially with someone she’d just met, without anyone else knowing where she was.
    They pulled up in front of a row of two-story houses. There wasn’t a garage, so Logan parked on the street, and she waited for him to come around to open her door. It gave her time to calm her breathing and think about how to handle the situation.
    “We managed to lose all of them, and I doubt they’ll come looking for you in the suburbs.”
    She stepped out of the vehicle and shut the door behind her, before following Logan to the front door of his house. Nerves made her stomach flutter, but she ignored them. It was time she started trusting her own instincts.
    “I should probably call my manager, just to let him know where I am.” Candace didn’t like the fact that no one in the world knew where to find her if they needed her. Although come to think of it, she did have a tracking device on her phone, so her manager could locate her if he made an effort.
    “Candace, you can do whatever you like, but if it were me? I’d be telling him you were safe and that you’d see him tomorrow. Unless you’re okay with that same shark frenzy we just escaped from turning up outside here with telescopic lenses.”
    She grimaced. “You really don’t like him, do you?”
    “If I’m completely honest with you, I have my suspicions that the hate mail and threats you’ve been receiving aren’t real. I don’t want to point fingers, but there’s only one person I can see who could be responsible, if my theory is correct.”
    Candace was sick to her stomach hearing his words, but she also realized that Logan could be right. She’d never have thought it before, had never thought it, but she also wasn’t prepared to defend Billy without looking into it further. Without her mom to guide her, she knew she could have overlooked something, but if Logan’s hunch was correct...She swallowed but refused to push the thoughts away like she usually would. She had only herself to rely on now, and that meant investigating the situation thoroughly if she needed to.
    “Say