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I couldn’t believe that. No. Ihadseen the real Mason. I’d held him while he sobbed in my arms the night before, a man broken down. I’d watched the lingering nightmare fade from his eyes while sinking into his body, claiming his full focus. I’d made love to a man who worked as an escort for the rich…
Puzzle pieces slid together in my mind as I focused on him rather than my own hurt.
“Fuck.” I rubbed a hand over my face and pushed the cell back across the table to Troy. “His stalker was a client, wasn’t he?”
“When Mason mentioned the Delaney boy, I decided to have Silas’s guy Chavéz do a little digging. The kid is trouble, and while a daddy is exactly what he needs in real life, his lifestyle showcased on social media doesn’t match up with the man Mason seems to be: decent, well-spoken, and the settle-down type.”
What was the real story about that evening…and the initial carved into Mason’s chest? The man I’d had in my bed for the last three nights was not a top and yet he sold his dick to satisfy customers needing a little TLC under a daddy bear?
Swallowing, I tried to process the truth and how to go about moving forward.
“What—what am I supposed to do with this?” I asked, not really looking for an answer. My brain still struggled to accept what I’d learned.
Troy leaned fully onto the table, his steady gaze reaching deep into my soul. “Do you love him?”
“I-I’m not sure,” I muttered, slumping in my chair as doubt once more crowded my mind. “I could. Easily. But what if everything I know about him isn’t true?”
“What if it is?”
“Huh?”
“What if what Mason has told youistrue, and he’s simply left out some facts because he’s ashamed of escorting and playing an unsatisfying part just for money?”
Mason definitely dealt with all sorts of unwanted, uncomfortable emotions. I couldn’t begin to imagine his concern and anxiety over the truth becoming known to the man he saw as his savior.
Did he honestly believe I would judge him? We’d discussed at length about how our pasts shaped us. How choices lead us in directions we were meant to traverse in learning how to move forward onto our next path in life.
Why would a man such as him resort to selling his dick though, especially when he called himself a strict bottom? While I didn’t look down on a person or their choices in life, what had made Mason that desperate?
He’d lost his job in January. He’d never been in a serious relationship because, like me, he’d been unable to find someone who fit in with his desires. Had he been so hungry for attention and physical touch that he signed on with Elite just to have some of his needs met?
But that wouldn’t make sense because of how he’d been cast according to Elite’s website—the last thing he would find with clients would be true physical fulfillment like he found by being stuffed by my dick.
“I’m so damn lost right now,” I whispered. “I have so many questions. I just…don’t understand.”
“Does the fact he hid this from you change how you feel about him?”
I shook my head. “I won’t ever judge a man for his past.”
“Then talk to him. Explain that to him. Maybe it really is something as simple as shame that kept him from telling you, but like a friend told me once, grab life ball the balls. Holler a ‘Gimme!’ and take what you want.” A soft smile curved Troy’s lips. “Don’t let him react in his emotions and make him see your acceptance. He seems the sort that would need to feel valued.”
Troy had no idea the truth he spoke, but he’d nailed Mason’s personality down with his statement. And that last bit? It totally applied to me as well.
“Thank you for looking out for me,” I said, forcing myself to inhale a deep breath and attempt to calm my racing heart.
“Anything for you, my friend.”
Our waitress returned with our food, and my stomach turned over at the thought of eating.
“Want to take this to go?” Troy asked, his voice quiet and understanding.
I nodded, eyeing the chicken ziti broccoli I had ordered. “Yeah. I…I think I need to sit in silence for a while and make sense of all this in my brain. Then I’m heading over to Mason’s to find out what’s really going on.”
Hopefully, he would be honest, and we could work through whatever this obstacle proved to be.
Chapter17
Mason
