“Why doesn’t my brother want to hear about book club?”Audrey asked, amused.
“Again.I’ll let your grandmother tell you about it.Although… do you know what hucows are?”
“Whatwhatare?”
ChapterFour
Mason
“That was fun,” Yasmine said, as Mason closed Jensen’s front door behind them.“Audrey seems really nice.Is David excited to have her here?”
“He is.It’s hard to read him sometimes, but I know he’s glad she came, although I think he’s a little worried about what it means for interactions with his parents.She’s still in touch with them even though he’s not.”Mason walked over and held out his arm for Yasmine to take so he could help her down the stairs.
The heels she was wearing weren’t very high, but it would still be easier for her to get down the stairs of the front porch with someone to lean on.Plus, that’s what he should do as her fiancé.Make sure she was being taken care of and make sure she was safe.
“Well, hopefully, it will turn out okay.Do we know if she’s kinky?”
Fuck.Mason hoped not.The only thing worse than seeing her casually at events like this would be seeing her at the club.
“I have no idea.”
Yasmine snickered, glancing at him as they reached the bottom of the stairs.
“You should see the look on your face.Are you worried David would freak out?”
“Yes.”That was something he was worried about now that she’d brought it up.It was definitely a consideration.“Not freak out, maybe, but I’m not sure how he’d handle it.”
“You know it’s not your job to handle everyone’s emotions and reactions just because you’re the team therapist, right?”she teased.
“Then what else are they paying me for?”
They both laughed.
But it felt weird.Something felt strained now that they’d made their announcement to their friends.Things felt off between them, instead of comfortably settled as they had been before.
“So,” Yasmine said as they neared her car.“We did it.We announced it.”
“Yeah.Does it feel a little odd to have it out in the open?”he asked hesitantly.He didn’t want to make her feel bad about it, but her demeanor made him wonder if she felt the same way.
Her shoulders sagged with relief when he said it.
“Okay, so it’s not just me?It feels more awkward now than it did before?”she asked, turning to face him and searching his expression.Her dark eyes were wide, her face lit by the streetlamps above the line of cars.She was stunningly beautiful.Gorgeous, in fact.
The kind of woman who turned heads when she walked down the street.
But he’d never felt the same surge of desire for her that he’d felt the moment he’d laid eyes on Audrey.
Maybe it was time to try to correct that.
“It’ll get better,” he reassured her in a murmur, bending his head down to press his lips against hers, reaching to put his hands on her hips and pull her body toward him.
They’d kissed before.A peck on the cheek, a perfunctory brush of the lips.Both of them knew they weren’t getting into this because of some mad passion or love.That wasn’t what they were expecting.It wasn’t what they’d agreed upon.
But they’d just announced their engagement.They should do something to level up this relationship.Especially if it would help him stop thinking about a certain redhead.
Yasmine stiffened as he pulled her against him, and their lips met.Mason did his best to kiss her with all the passion he saw David kiss Cassidy with.That Drew kissed Naomi with.But she remained stiff against him, though her lips parted.Their tongues touched.
It was…
