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When I foundher in the living room, she was gathering up her stuff.“This isn’t happening anymore, Mason,” Megan hissed angrily, but quiet enough that my three-year-old son, Wyatt, wouldn’t overhear us.
“What are you talking about, Megan?”I ran my hand down her arm, but she flinched and pulled away.
“I’m not going to be your piece of ass when you come to town anymore.”There are tears in her eyes.Shit.
“Megan, I live in two places.I can’t just move here; I work in the Senate.I come home to Boston to take care of local things and see Wyatt, and that’s complicated enough now that he’s coming with me to DC.”
“Too complicated for a relationship with me?”Her eyes pierced mine.
“Are we seriously having this discussion right now?I just became the full-time caregiver to the son I didn't haveanycustody of until six months ago.Things with Catherine are up in the air.Can we just wait and talk about this when things have settled?”
“Settled?Settled?” Her blue eyes narrowed, and she poked me in the chest.“Mason, this isn’t about Wyatt.Or Catherine.I’m not asking you to marry me, I’m asking you to stop hiding me.We’ve been doing this off and on for seven years and I’m sick of being second fiddle to every other damn thing in your life.”
My hand dragged through my hair.“It’s been a crazy year.Eleanor and I just got divorced!Can we please just get through the holidays before we decide?”
“No.”She tipped her chin up defiantly.
“No?”
“Mason.I’ve been kidding myself for years.I thought when you and Elle split up it was going to be you and me.And I know things have been coming at a quick clip here, but I’m sick of waiting for you to decide I’m worth more time than a casual fuck.”
“Megan, I’m sorry that you feel that way, but you knew all along that I planned to marry Elle.You were one of five people who knew that we were arranged to be married since we were kids.”
“But you aren’t married anymore, Mase.She left you for love.I’ve been here picking up the pieces, both as your assistant and your secret-girlfriend for months.All I want is for you to tell me that this is going somewhere.Now that you don’t have an arranged marriage hanging over your head, would you even consider being with me?”A tear fell down her cheek.
“Megan.Don’t cry.”I wiped at the tear with my thumb.“I may be divorced on paper, but I’m still processing it.Elle didn’t love me, but I loved her.She was my best friend and now I have a weird non-relationship with her.”
“Youlovedher?”Uh-oh.“So, all those years of just reminding me it was all for show was a lie?What about me, Mason?Do you love me?”Fire burned in her eyes.
Fuck.“Megan, please.”
She gathered her stuff into her hands.“That’s what I thought.I can’t do this anymore.I’m done.”
“Okay, yeah.I get that.”I ran a hand through my hair as Wyatt ran into the room, crashing into my leg.
“Senator!I found my train!”
“That’s awesome, buddy.”I patted his head.
Megan crouched down to Wyatt’s level.“Have so much fun working with dad, Wy.I have to go now, okay?”
He nodded and threw his arms around her neck for a hug.“Will you come to work with us?”Wyatt was coming to DC with me for the time being and just referred to the entire city as ‘work.’He wasn’t exactly wrong.
“No, buddy.I’m afraid dad and I won’t be working together anymore.”
“Okay.”
I grabbed her hand and pulled her back up.“What do you mean we won’t be working together anymore?”I panicked.
Megan straightened to her full height and plastered on a business-like expression of indifference.“I can’t work for you anymore, Senator Davis.I quit.Effective immediately.”
I threw my hands into the air.“You can’t quit, Megan!”
“Oh my god, you’re unbelievable!You are more upset at losing me as an employee than—” she looked down at Wyatt and chose her next words carefully, “as a friend.Thank you for making this such a simple decision.”
She stormed out of my apartment without looking back.Fuck.I texted my Chief of Staff, Ben.
Meg just quit
