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“Did you tell them about splitting it with me?”
“Splitting it? Who said anything about splitting it?”
“Oh. Sorry. I didn’t mean…”
“I’m just kidding. Of course we’re splitting it. And I didn’t tell them about that. I’ll let them meet you first. They’ll get it.” He smiled down at me.
“You don’t have to do it, you know. You could just give me a normal position at the company. With Kendra or something. I don’t need to share the business with you. I just want you. I don’t want all that.”
“I want to do it with you.” He squeezed my shoulder. “Besides, I was getting really excited about the idea of sharing an office with you.”
“It’s too much, Mason.”
“It’s not like I’m going to let you skate by. You’ll have to do half the work. I’m good with my decision. It’s what I want. But if it’s not what you want, we can talk about it.”
“I won’t be holding you back?”
“You won’t be holding me back.”
I smiled and looked up at the snowflakes falling down on us. The sky had an orangey glow to it. “You named your new company after me.”
“I find you kind of inspiring, Bee. Now, there’s one more part to the night. We can count snowflakes on our tongues on the way to the taxi.”
I laughed and stood up. He remembered what I always did with my mom in the snow.
* * *
“Do I have to keep wearing this?”
“Yes,” Mason said as he grabbed my hand, pulling me out of the taxi.
“I can’t see anything.”
“That’s kind of the point, baby.” He lightly grazed the side of my cheek with his lips. He had undone his tie and blindfolded me with it in the car.
“If this involves jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge into freezing cold water, I’m not sure I want to be an official New Yorker.”
“Nothing that crazy, I promise.”
“Have you done this before?”
“Blindfolded a woman and lead her toward the icy waters of the East River? Only a dozen times.”
I meant to shove his chest but my hand landed on his abs. God I loved his abs.
“You’re getting a little ahead of yourself there. That’s the after party.”
I laughed, but kept my hand on his abs. It helped me walk forward a little less shakily.
“Whatever it is we’re actually doing, have you done it before?”
“I’ve been here before, yes. Not like this, though.”
I heard something ding and then suddenly I wasn’t cold anymore. We must have stepped inside a building. “Are we just back at your place?”
“So eager.” He lead me farther into the building and then we stopped.
“Ah!” I almost fell over when the floor started moving.
