Jonathan froze at first, however then laughed softly and returned the embrace. “This woman is nice for you,” he stated as they broke aside. “And for the Manor, I’d add. Liz went on about Addison’s cinnamon rolls for 3 days.”

Christ, the fucking cinnamon rolls once more. It might all the time be the cinnamon rolls. “Who can blame her?” he stated with half a smile.

With a last chuckle and a, “See you tomorrow,” Jonthan patted him on the shoulder and left the room.

Mason took a minute to only let himself breathe. All the pieces could be all proper in time. He was positive of it.

He’d want to speak to the opposite guys quickly. Each one in every of them deserved an apology for a way he’d acted the final yr or extra, however that must wait.

For now, just one factor mattered.

Addison.

“You’re awfully quiet this morning,” Mason stated as he unlocked his entrance door. She’d barely spoken on the drive over.

Addison moved towards the little desk the place her collar waited with out saying a phrase, however he put a hand on her shoulder to cease her. Solely half turning towards him, she requested, “Don’t you need me to prepare, Grasp?”

Okay, he wasn’t imagining it. One thing was positively off. “I’m sorry I couldn’t speak a lot the previous few days,” he stated, watching what he might see of her face for her response. “I wanted to be further attentive to Tara after I ran out on her like that.”

She turned the remainder of the best way, peering up into his face with a confused frown. “Do you assume I’m mad at you?” It seemed like real shock in her voice.

“Aren’t you?”

Her smile eased the constructing strain in his chest. “Not even a bit of bit.”

“You set in your software that you just don’t ever need to be shared or have scenes with different folks,” he stated, feeling the necessity to clarify how he jumped to this flawed conclusion. “Then you definately have been so quiet after I ran off to be with Tara, so I wasn’t positive…” He let the sentence path off.

She huffed out a bit of giggle. “I do know you’ve got a job to do, and it doesn’t trouble me in any respect. Trustworthy. Not desirous to be double teamed or handed round is a complete totally different factor.” She wrinkled her nostril, and it was fucking cute. “I can’t be the one kinky woman to really feel that method.”

“Not even remotely,” he assured her. “However there’s something flawed, although. Isn’t there?”

She studied his face for a number of seconds earlier than a choice gleamed in her gold-flecked eyes. “Do you assume perhaps we will maintain being Mason and Addison a bit of bit longer? I form of need to speak to you about one thing.”

Alarm bells went off in his head. That wasn’t fairly a gravely delivered we have to speak, but it surely was rattling fucking shut.

Don’t do that. The determined plea stuffed his thoughts, his coronary heart, all of his senses. We’ll determine tips on how to make this work by some means. Don’t surrender earlier than we even attempt.

Outwardly, all he did was nod, main her over to the lounge with a hand on the small of her again. He waited till they settled on the couch, each partially turned to face each other, to ask, “What’s in your thoughts?”

“Why did you drive me to New Mexico?” she requested, her expression unreadable.

Mason’s thoughts cycled by way of the totally different prospects of the place she might be going with this. None of them appeared significantly good. “You wanted assist, so I helped you,” he stated, selecting his phrases fastidiously.

“That’s all?”

Frowning, he tried to determine what the hell that was speculated to imply. Wasn’t {that a} completely good motive to do one thing good for another person?

Except…maybe she actually did imply it when she accused him of serving to with ulterior motives.

“Should you’re asking if I solely drove you down there so that you’d maintain sleeping with me, I?—”

“No,” she interrupted, laying a soothing hand on his thigh. “That’s not what I’m asking. I’m sorry I ever stated that. I wasn’t pondering rationally on the time.”

Mason seemed down at her hand, wishing he had the braveness to position his personal hand over it. Since when had he turn out to be such a fucking coward?

Ultimately, he determined the reality was the one method out of this. “Addison, I’m going to be trustworthy with you. You’re scaring the hell out of me proper now. What’s the matter?”

Grimacing, she stated, “I’m sorry, I’m doing this all flawed.” She heaved a sigh that he felt in his bones. “I’m making an attempt to ask if you happen to did that simply since you’re good, or if you happen to”—she gulped—“have emotions for me.” She couldn’t look him within the eye anymore.

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