I couldn’t play coy with Mason. Not anymore. We had stepped into something else.
Something scarily real.
I started to undress. Slowly. Carefully. I felt his hands caress my skin as I did so, helping me with the buttons. Unzipping my skirt.
His eyes shone bright in the darkened room. His hands were shaking with the need to touch me.
“I’ll share a few of mine with you, Mason. That I can promise.”
Was I lying?
Was I finally giving him some truth?
I didn’t think any more because his lips silenced me and there was no more talking.
Chapter 20
Mason
I wanted to believe her.
God, did I want to believe her.
She seemed genuine.
Sincerity is easy to fake.
I thought about the letter I had received just a day ago.
Do you see the truth? She does a good job of hiding it from you.
It was a little too appropriate.
Hannah had been hiding the truth from me.
But was it a deal breaker?
So she had been fired. I understood her not wanting to tell me that when we had just met.
But why keep up the lie after we got to know each other?
Why not tell me she was going to see her sister?
Her reasons all made sense.
I listened to her excuses and I wished them to be true. They had to be. Hannah cared about me. I knew it.
Right?
So why couldn’t I let it go?
Where there’s one lie, there are more.
Experience had taught me that.
After discovering that Hannah didn’t work for Western Railways, I had done something I’d told myself I wouldn’t do. Not with her.
I did a background check on my girlfriend.
