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Checkmate.
I turn to go to my room, but she can’t let it go.
“If you love him, or evencarefor him, you’ll let him go. He’s had a hard enough time. He doesn’t need to be mixed up in your problems, too. This family loves him.”
“Yeah, well—”I do, too.I stop myself.
Fuck, that’s not true.
Shit. Shit, shit, shit.
My heart swells and I curse myself internally for not seeing the signs before. I’m an idiot. Plain and simple.
And I’m falling in love with Mason Carpenter.
“Mason’s a grown man,” I say after a moment. “He’s welcome to do whatever he pleases. If he wants to walk away, I won’t stop him.”
It tastes like battery acid as soon as it leaves my tongue. My chest burns, my eyes grow watery, and for a moment, I think about crying.
But I won’t. Not tonight.
I need to leave.
“Have the night you deserve, Savannah.”
And I turn to go pack my bags.
Mason
“There’s no chance? How well do you really know her?”
That’s the problem, isn’t it? That I’ve come to know her better than the back of my fucking hand and now I can’t walk away.
Somewhere along the line, this stopped being about bringing Melissa to justice and morphed into something far more dangerous. If Hannah’s in this shit, then I am, too, whether she likes it or not.
“She’s not helping her.”
Logan nods, waving to one of his unnamed workers as they leave for the night. The little prick that broke into Hannah’shouse was hauled away ten minutes ago, leaving behind nothing but a pool of his own blood and piss and a broken kitchen table on the linoleum floor.
I should have killed him.
I want to. For what it’s worth. When I arrived and saw his hands wrapped around Hannah’s throat, the gun at my back seemed too kind an execution for him. I wanted to use my bare hands. Wring the life from him for daring to touch her.
Now . . . I’m struggling to remember all the reasons I said she could never be mine.
And that’s a real fucking problem.
“What I can’t figure out, is why they would let her go.” I know he’s talking about Melissa from the cold, dark hate in his eyes and the call Hannah got the other night. I can’t say I blame him, though, Parker’s just as much to blame for Melissa Gaines’s issues as her Mother, but there’s something dark about her that wasn’t put there by anyone else.
“She can be very . . . persuasive.”
“We need her to talk, Mason. I need to know what the fuck she brought with her,” Logan says so quietly, Savannah can’t hear.
“I’ll handle it.”
“None of that sob story shit, either. I need the full story. This affects more than just you.”
“I said, I’ll handle it.”
