Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 45614 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 228(@200wpm)___ 182(@250wpm)___ 152(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45614 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 228(@200wpm)___ 182(@250wpm)___ 152(@300wpm)
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, but a lot scary.
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.
She found herself thinking about him and sex so much. Traitorous body, or horny body, she couldn’t make out which it was, but as he pressed her up against the wall of the shower, she couldn’t help but wonder if one day soon, they would.
****
Mason sat in Jacob’s office. His brother-in-law continued to glare at him, but he didn’t react to it. There was no point. The other man could hate him. Gabriel, however, was sitting, enjoying a whiskey.
“How is married life treating you?” Gabriel asked.
“Good.”
“And Tamsin?”
Jacob remained silent. Mason was sure Jacob was under the impression that he’d in some way manipulated Tamsin. That he must be the reason Tamsin didn’t want to see her brothers. He clearly didn’t want to take responsibility for his own actions.
This was not Mason’s doing. From the start, he’d been quite clear to Tamsin that she was free to see her family. So long as she didn’t try anything stupid like run away, they would get along fine.
He’d thought being married would be a piece of cake. He’d have a wife at home, and he could go about his life without a care in the world. Mason didn’t expect to start feeling so possessive of his wife, so obsessed with her. It was insane. Completely and totally … amazing.
“She’s doing well.” This very morning in the shower, he had made sure she was more than satisfied. Pressing her up against the wall and running his hands all over her body, touching her, he’d nearly broke his own rules and taken her right there.
He wanted to be inside her so badly, but he wasn’t going to break his promise to her. When the time was right, he would finally take her virginity, and then Tamsin would belong to him completely.
“And your father?” Jacob asked.
“He hasn’t come anywhere near her,” Mason said. “I gave you my word. If you wanted to see her at my home, I wouldn’t stop you.”
Jacob glared at him. “My home is Tamsin’s home.”
Jacob and Gabriel had both decided to live in the Denton family home. He didn’t know how Louisa, Jacob’s wife, took that news, but it seemed to be working for them.
All the other brothers had different homes. Mason still kept track of them all, even though they were meant to be his allies, and he had given no reason why they shouldn’t be.