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“Before I met you, I worked as an escort, and Joseph was a client. He paid for me—I topped him, and he wasn’t the only one.”
My pulse thrummed, and I swallowed hard, waiting for Jasper to detangle our hands, for him to sneer and tell me what a sick bastard I was, to scream at me for lying to him.
He sat silent, unmoving.
Had he not heard me?
I peeked open an eyelid to find him studying my face with a gentle expression.
“Is that everything?”
As if that hadn’t been bad enough…
I shook my head. “Those are the big parts. The important ones that will make you hate me.”
“I would never, Mason.”
“But…but men paid for me to be someone I wasn’t—and I agreed. I fucked strangers for cash, Jasper, more than once. Hell, upwards of at least fifty times over the past six months.”
He took in that information as though that fact didn’t kick his guts like the low blow I’d expected it to be.
“You said that was before the night of the attack, right?” Jasper asked.
I nodded.
“Were you with a client that evening?”
“No—I was at a friend’s birthday party.”
“Did you have plans of going back to work for Elite after we met?”
I opened my mouth but snapped it shut before answering. I hadn’t once mentioned Elite to him.
Jasper’s gaze remained open and vulnerable while my stomach clenched up tight.
“H-How long have you known?” I whispered.
“Just today.”
“Why…why aren’t you flipping out? Why aren’t you at least glaring at me or running to the bathroom to puke because the idea of what I’ve done makes you sick?”
Jasper caressed his palm over my whiskers, and I leaned into his touch without thought, eyes once more welling with tears. “You signed on with Elite because it was a lucrative job, didn’t you?”
I nodded, unable to speak.
“Did you also initially think that you might find some sort of sexual gratification in that line of work?”
I figured that I could claim to be vers to get the job, then maybe actually get to bottom on occasion. After my first meeting with Micah and seeing his excitement over adding a daddy to his menu, I’d signed for the money alone, my hope put in its place. “I knew what the job would entail after my interview.”
“And yet you still agreed to work for Elite.”
“Yes,” I whispered, “because of Marin and her family.”
“I don’t care how you chose to support your sister,” Jasper stated firmly, scooting closer to grasp my chin. “The fact you love her enough to do whatever necessary to help keep food on their table says a lot about your character, Mason.”
Tears dripped off my chin even though I couldn’t hold onto or name any of the many emotions swirling inside me.
“Have you been tested recently?”
