“Tell him if he doesn’t get on the phone, I’m coming over there,” he said.

“What?” Logan said into the phone after Katie relayed the message. “Fine…I didn’t have any,” he said.

Katie dropped down on the couch, no longer worried about a missed text from Matt as she watched Logan’s eyes fill with tears and then his bottom lip begin to quiver. “I don’t care,” he said. “You broke one of the Ten Commandments. You make us go to church, but you don’t even follow what they say.” His face crumbled, and he began to cry. “I can’t,” he whispered before tossing the phone to Katie and fleeing to his room.

Katie lifted the phone to her ear. “I think he’s too upset to talk,” she said, a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.

“I know,” her father said, sounding tired. “I’m going to take the two of you to dinner Tuesday night. Maybe you can tell him that when he’s feeling better.”

She wanted to ask him if that meant he wouldn’t be calling the next night but couldn’t bring herself to say the words. He sounded sad, and, for reasons she didn’t quite understand, she didn’t want to make him sadder. “I will.”

“Katie?”

She gripped the phone, knowing what he was going to say. “Yes?”

“I love you.”

“Bye, Dad,” she whispered.

As she headed back to her room, she paused outside Logan’s door, wishing for the first time in two months that Megan was home. Megan would know what to say to make Logan feel better. She knocked softly on his door. “It’s me,” she said, opening the door. He was lying on his bed, turned on his side and facing the wall.

She had no idea what to say, so she sat down on the side of his bed and said nothing. A few minutes passed, and she was thinking about leaving when Logan rolled over onto his back.

“He’s such a fucking liar.”

Her eyes widened as she swung her gaze to his. “Logan! You just said ‘fucking.’” It was the first time she’d ever heard him curse. “Wow.”

He blushed. “Yeah, well, he is. He’s always lecturing me about what it means to be a man, and the whole time he…” He paused as if unable to bring himself to say the words. “He was sinning.”

“Maybe it’s better that he’s not perfect. He can’t really expect us to be if he’s not.”

“I still hate him,” Logan said.

“I don’t think I do, not for this anyway.” Katie lay back on his bed beside him. “I think he really regrets it. And Grandma said they’re going to get back together by next summer. She looked at their charts.”

“Mom won’t take him back! He had sex with another woman.”