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know his lifestyle and business choices
now so…” I told her as I watched her paint my toe nails a funny grey colour. I
wasn’t sure I liked it but I would refrain from telling her.
    It was unusual for Mason to be so secretive and he did
seem quite stressed when he came back home. He’d told me he’d had a morning
from hell but I hadn’t questioned it. I should have.
     
    “Well, I’m telling you, they’re hiding something and I
dunno about you, Ava, but I’m determined to find out what.”
    My phone trilled inside my bag and Courtney reached over
and pulled it out for me whilst I remained immobile with wet toes. “Mason” She
informed me and I sighed as I took it from her and answered.
    “Where the fuck are you?” he growled at me and I gasped.
    “Hello to you too Mason, I’m getting pretty sick and
tired of your bloody attitude towards me.”
    “And I’m getting sick and fucking tired of your fucking
lies, Ava, so I guess we’re even.”
    I gulped and stilled, “What?”
    “Where are you?”
    Shit!
    “Uhh, I’m out.”
    He barked out a loud scoff. “Well that I do know, what I
want to know is where you are” he repeated slowly.
     
    Courtney was staring at me with wide eyes as she caught
Mason’s anger through the receiver, his loud voice sifting into the quietness of
the room.
    “It doesn’t matter where I am but I need to tell you
Kerrie is picking the kids up and I won’t be home for tea.”
    He was eerily silent before he spoke slowly and levelly.
“Do not fuck me off any more today, Ava. You’re already down for reprimand
tonight, don’t make it worse.”
    “What the hell, Mason. I’m not a child.”
    “Well don’t fucking act like one then!”
    “You’re barking and swearing at me down the phone, but
it’s me who’s acting like a child?”
    I heard his severe inhalation and I could picture him
gripping something tightly in his fist as he tried to control his temper. “I’m
gonna ask you one more time, baby. Where the fuck are you?”
    “Out” I replied as I ended the call.
     
    Courtney gawked at me, her eyes huge and round as she
digested my bravado with Mason. “He’s gonna be knocking on my door in roughly
seven minutes, babe. You wanna go hide somewhere?”
    I couldn’t help but laugh at her. She chuckled slightly
then full on laughed with me, “Fuck, Ava. He’s gonna shit his innards’ with
you.”
    I laughed even more, “It save’s me buying laxatives to
teach him who’s boss.”
    Her eyes widened even more before she laughed harder. “I
do not envy you right now.”
    “Ahh, he’ll get over it” I told her with a wave of my
hand.
     
    We both quietened when the front door flew open and Greg
walked in with a boiling Mason.
    “Make that four minutes and twenty six seconds” Courtney
whispered humorously and I choked out a bark of laughter.
    What the hell was wrong with me? I had a death wish.
     
    He stood glaring at me as Greg cringed beside him, “Out!”
    I raised my eyes to his and wobbled my head from side to
side as if contemplating his command. “Nah!” I smiled with a scrunch of my
nose.
    I’m sure I saw steam blow out of his ears as Greg and
Courtney both gasped at my rebellious denial.
    His eyebrows lifted as he smirked at me, “What?”
    “I said, No, baby.”
    He nodded slowly. “I thought that’s what you said.”
    His confident tone had my internal alarms on high alert
and I watched him warily.
    He took two steps towards me, placed his hands around my
waist and hoisted me over his shoulder.
    “Get off me!” I shouted as I thumped his back hard.
    “Uhh…” Courtney stood swiftly, deliberating if she was
brave enough to come to my assistance as Mason stomped through the front door
and down the path towards his car, where he opened the door and flung me
inside.
     
    I grabbed the handle when he shut the door but he flicked
the lock before I had chance to escape.
    “Who the fuck do you think you are?” I stormed at him as
he slid