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“It’s okay. You came.”
“You’ll be coming later.”
Mason clears his throat and Logan just snickers at Savannah’s blushing cheeks.
“Where’s Christian?” Mason asks, scanning the yard. Is it bad that I find solace in the uncomfortable silence that follows because, for once, it’s not because of me? “I haven’t seen him.”
Monica hushes Mason, placing a hand on his shoulder, and pinning him with her gaze.
“What?” he asks, completely oblivious and Monica sighs.
“He left,” Mila murmurs darkly, eyes burning with something repressed I have come to know all too well. She shrugs. “Guess he got all he was after here.”
“Mila,” Monica admonishes, but Mila just shakes her head, disappearing into the house.
“What happened?” Mason asks, cocking a brow and Monica purses her lips.
“Well, you know your sister. Always wears her heart on her sleeve. He went back to New York. I guess he has family there.”
I want to ask who Christian is, but I know—for once—that now’s not a good time.
“You should go speak to her,” Monica urges, but Mason shakes his head.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“I’ll go,” Bailey chimes softly. “She’s going to want to hear it from a woman, anyway.”
Monica nods and Bailey retreats to the house.
“Don’t tell me . . .” Mason grumbles and Monica nods.
“Afraid so.”
“Anyone want dessert?” she asks cheerfully, glossing over the elephant in the room. “Or a drink?” she mutters, downing the rest of her champagne.
“Oh, to be young again, my dear,” Bob laughs, wrapping his arm around her shoulders.
I give Mason a squeeze of my hand, who still watches the door Mila and Bailey disappeared through as if he could set it on fire with his eyes.
“You can’t stop it,” I whisper so only he can hear me.
“I can.”
“Remember when they tried to stop you from seeing me?”
His eyes find mine and I watch as the anger softens in his gaze.
He pulls me into him, pressing a kiss to my lips.
But he doesn’t say another word.
Hannah
The funny thing about life is even when everything feels like it’s starting to fall into place, the universe is actually secretly conspiring against you to fuck that shit up before all the pieces ever land.
I am Hannah Gaines. Daughter of Hank and Laura Gaines. Sister of Melissa Gaines. Guilty as sin, just like the rest of them.
Today, I’m just sad.
