The Radio Secret – My Sister In Love with My Fiance Chapter 08
I couldn’t shake Logan off. He stuck to our medical team’s heels wherever we traveled.
The war zone was far too deadly to risk kicking a civilian loose to wander unprotected, and even Nathan couldn’t force him to leave our camp.
I never gave Logan a single kind look, never spoke a word to him, never met his eyes once.
I’d gotten a new cell number and sent Calista a text weeks prior, but spotty satellite signal meant I never received a single reply.
“You don’t need to worry about Calista. I hired people to watch over her–they say she hasn’t had any self–destructive outbursts. She’s matured so much.
She’s not that fragile girl who threatened to end her life anymore.”
His words settled a tiny flicker of calm in my chest. I was glad Calista had grown stronger, even if that growth came from agonizing heartbreak.
“Rosie… can you just listen to what I need to say?”
The stars blazed bright over Country K’s nighttime sky. Once, Logan’s eyes had glowed just as brilliantly
as those stars—but that light had vanished entirely.
“I watched that bridal video you filmed on our wedding photoshoot day. You were radiant. The pure happiness
you carried in your eyes, all because of me–I’ll never see that look again for the rest of my life.”
My feet froze mid–step as I turned to walk away,
Logan’s voice sounding behind my back.
“Back then, you truly loved me, didn’t you? I’m the one who threw everything we had away.”
“You and Calista are two completely different women. You’re a wild rose–bright, vibrant, lined with sharp thorns. She’s an orchid: delicate, soft, gentle.”
“I’ve replayed it over and over, trying to figure out how I fell for both of you at once.”
Logan stepped in front of me. Months trekking through war zones had stripped away every trace of his polished, refined demeanor, leaving only exhaustion
etched deep into his features.
“When I met you, you’d just been betrayed by your ex–boyfriend, shattered and broken. All I wanted was to mend you, to pull you back out into the sunlight.”
“I watched you rebuild yourself–resident, then attending, carving out a life that didn’t include me.
And I mistook your wholeness for absence.”
“Then Calista walked into the picture. She was like a newborn fawn, clinging to me, dependent on every bit of support I gave her. When the two of you were together, my heart drifted to her without me even noticing.”
Calista was the fragile orchid requiring constant gentle care, and Logan’s heart leaned toward her
automatically. He’d silently assumed I was tough enough to bear any hurt, while Calista was far too delicate to endure pain.
“Do you really think this excuse erases all the damage
you’ve done to both of us?”
Logan probably thought this vulnerable confession would move me. It only churned revulsion in my stomach.
“You knew what trust cost me after my last betrayal- and you spent it like it was yours to waste.”
“You knew Calista was my sister, the only blood family
I had left, yet you never drew a clear boundary between the two of you.”
“I stepped aside to let the two of you build a life together, and now you claim you can’t live without
me? What about Calista? Have you stopped to consider how abandoned she feels?”
“You haven’t changed one bit. You’re utterly,
irredeemably selfish.”
Tears streamed down Logan’s face, his voice rough and broken. “You’re right. I’m horribly selfish.”
“Rosie, I’ve made up my mind this time. I finally know who I truly love. Losing you broke me completely.”
I shook my head slowly. Every new ugly truth I uncovered about Logan pushed me further past the point of no return.
“There’s no future left for us, Logan.”
“Rosie!” Logan’s voice cracked behind me, thick with despair. “I’ll do anything you ask of me. Please just forgive me.”
I kept walking, never slowing my pace, never turning back for him.
Back at camp, Nathan stood by my tent flap, a satellite booster in hand.