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Tamsin pressed her lips together.
“I guess, with everything going on, I didn’t think about you losing them. I want you to know, Tamsin, you can be married to me and still be with your brothers.”
“I know that,” Tamsin said. “I’m not ready to … see them.”
“You’re angry at them?”
“Yes, no, I don’t know how I feel about them.” She shrugged. “I don’t know if I’m ever going to willingly see them again. Everything is messed up, and to be honest, they all cared about their own thing.” She blew out a breath. “Can we not talk about this?”
It was easier to not think about her family. Yes, she still loved her brothers and her sisters-in-law, as well as all her nieces and nephews. The Denton name was always expanding. Just because she still loved them didn’t mean she had to like them. She didn’t agree with anything they had done.
They hadn’t been able to solve Landon’s problem, and that was why he had a new identity, and was all alone in the world. Admittedly, with his chosen woman, but that was beside the point. He was still alone.
She ran fingers through her hair, and any temptation she had was gone.
“I need a shower.”
Tamsin pulled away from the bed and padded toward the bathroom without a backward glance.
She went straight to the shower, switching it on. Removing her clothes, she stepped inside, tilted her head back, and allowed the spray to run down and all over her face. It was nice and warm. Just the right temperature. It felt good, and for a few seconds, she stopped thinking about her family.
Jacob, Abel, Oliver, Gideon, Damon, Landon, and of course Gabriel. He’d not been her brother for very long, but he was still her brother. Half or otherwise. She had agreed to all of Mason’s terms to help them.
The shower stall opened and she didn’t turn around. Within seconds, Mason’s arms were around her. “I never brought them up to trouble you.” He pressed his lips against her neck.
“I know.”
“I want you to have everything, Tamsin. You can be married to me and still see your brothers. I won’t hold it against you. I don’t want you to feel alone.”
“I’m not alone.”
“But that’s the thing, for two years, you have done everything in your power to avoid going to see them.”
She sighed and then spun around in his arms, so she faced him. “Because I’ve not wanted to.”
“Don’t you think it is … wrong to hold a grudge?” he asked.
Tamsin couldn’t help but smile. “Don’t you mean childish? You were going to say childish?”
Mason sighed. “I know you’re not a child.” He pushed some of her wet hair off her shoulder.
“I know.”
“Life is short. Both of us know that. Regardless of what you thought of your dad in the end, there are times you must miss him. I know I miss my grandfather.”
“Mason, you and I are not the same. The guy that died is not the man who was my dad, if that makes any sense at all. He’d changed. He had arranged for Landon’s girl to be killed. The father I knew would have protected everyone at all costs, regardless. He got greedy.”
Mason stroked her cheek. “Fine, your dad is not a good enough example, but what about your brothers and uncles, and aunts?”
“When I’m ready, I’ll go and see them again, but not yet.” The truth was, the only person in the last two years she felt comfortable around was Mason. How crazy was that?
He’d been one of the people she’d been running from, and yet, if danger were to break out, he’d be the one she ran to. Not her brothers or uncles, or her other family. Just Mason.
She cupped his cheek and looked into his eyes. Tamsin had no idea what was going on, and it was kind of scary. Not kind of, buta lotscary.
She couldn’t tell him how she was feeling. There was really no one to talk to. These feelings were unusual to her.
Standing on tiptoe, she pressed her lips to his, kissing him hard. Mason banded an arm around her waist and pulled her in close, deepening the kiss. She felt the hard ridge of his cock pressing against her stomach, and she couldn’t help but wonder what it would finally be like to have him deep inside her, filling her up.
