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He pins me with a glare I can’t ignore. I step over the blankets and toward him. When I’m close enough, he grabs my leg and reaches to lift me, setting me on his lap.
“I need to speak to your brother.”
I freeze. He wants to tell Mase.
What does that mean?
That he’s serious?
I swallow the dryness in my throat and try to find some words.
“We can’t keep sneaking around. A few weeks is long enough for him not to know, and we both know that’s bullshit.”
It is bullshit. Especially with everything that happened last year. The gala. The fact I fucked up a massive business deal and still get butterflies whenever Lance looks at me.
“He doesn’t need to know about anything else.”
“I don’t know, Lance.”
“It’s not going to make a difference to us. He isn’t going to do shit.”
“But it labels this.” I look between us, my knees hugging his ribs. “It makes it feel like it’s something.”
“It is something, Scarlet.”
I lift my eyes to his, my body running hot. “This wasn’t meant to happen.”
“I know.” He reaches up and pushes a lock of hair behind my ear. “But I don’t think either of us can stop.”
I shake my head, agreeing with him.
He swallows, nodding. “He’s fighting with Nina. An ex turned up and caused havoc, but she’s gone now. I’ll speak to him next week once things have calmed down.”
“What?” They’re fighting? “Are they okay now?”
“Nina’s staying at Lucy and Megan’s for a while. Mase didn’t handle the situation well, and with her studio being sold, I think Nina needed some space.”
Something aches in my chest. Nina lost her studio last week. The owner decided to sell with absolutely no notice. The idea that they’re fighting makes me sad.
Nina and Mason seem so in love. The type of couple you look at and know they’re just supposed to be.
“I’ll call her tomorrow, have her come out to the estate. She’s not been working, but she seemed okay on the phone when I spoke to her in the week.”
His lips flatten to a thin line, and he only gives me another stiff nod.
“What is it?”
He thinks about it, telling me whatever it is on the tip of his tongue, but then he shakes his head. “Nothing. I’m just getting used to having someone else in our group. And with Nina comes Megan and Lucy. It’s a different dynamic.”
I watch him, my eyes tight as I try to figure him out. “You seem to have more tolerance for Lucy and Megan. You’re still not sure on Nina?”
“I see them more, I guess. Nina’s always with Mase, and he doesn’t tend to let her out of his sight. I don’t want to see your brother get screwed over again, and I don’t think he even tries to protect himself from it.”
He doesn’t trust her.
“Again?”
I can tell he’s tripped up when he sighs. “That ex,” he eventually tells me. “She once blackmailed him. That’s about all I can tell you. Mason would kill me.”
