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this life I can’t be too sure. I hate second guessing my actions. I got to man up.
    I don’t understand women. I don’t understand why they do the things they do. I was completely in the dark when it came to Tess. She had demons that I never dreamed of. She had real live monsters in her closet and I never expected a thing.
    Eleven years of marriage and I didn’t really get to know Tess until our marriage was unsalvageable. I thought I could read people. I thought I was a good judge of character but that is far from the facts.
    Kari marrying another man had my mind in the cosmos. I couldn’t understand how she could marry him. She professed her love for me in infinite terms. Would she have really said I do to him? There’s no way. That’s my ego saying what I want it to say. She was really going to marry him and abandon me.
    My heart tells me I’m right about one thing. Kari loves me. She is just a little shaken by my drastic measures. She will come around and adapt to the situation I have forced on her. She will love me back, wholly, solely, completely and forever.
    I sat up in bed for at least twenty minutes before she woke up. I could have recuffed her wrist. I decided against it for now. We needed to talk. I wanted her to feel safe with me. She would always be safe with me. I would die for her . If I hadn’t made it clear before, I will make it clear now.
    She rubbed her eyes and I saw her expression change as she realized that she was still locked up tight with the bad man. Me , Mafia Mason.
    I waited a few minutes to speak. “Good morning princess.” Kari just causally glanced over at me. No response. No good morning. “Do you want to talk about what happened last night?”
    “I don’t know. ” Kari continued to rub the sleep from her eyes and pat her messy hair down. “What is there to say?”
    “I don’t kno w, Kari. We can talk about last night.”
    “What about it? Did something happen?”
    Okay you’re nude and I’m nude. “Stop.”
    She sighed heavily. “We had sex.” She shrugged. “Sex has never been a problem for us. It’s everything else that seems to get in the way.”
    “I don’t know how this is going to play out.”
    “Well Mason, I don’t really care. I just want to go home.”
    “You don’t care about me.”
    “I didn’t say that.”
    “Sure seems that way. No matter how things went for us I never ever set out to hurt you. That was never my intention. But it seems that yo u are hell bent on hurting me, making me squirm. Twist the knife in my back every chance you get.”
    “What are you talking about?”
    “You haven’t been with me for a full day and all you talk about is leaving. I haven’t hurt you in any way. I haven’t hit you, choked you, starved you or abused you in any way yet you want to run away from me. Fuck! How is that supposed to make me feel?”
    “Mason you are so unbelievable.”
    “Really, in the past we spent days together and now you act like breathing the same air as me is toxic. Stop with the games.”
    “What games?”
    “When I walked into this room last night you were moaning and grinding into the mattress. You were dreaming. Look at me!” Fuck, I scared her. Kari’s face twitched and her eyes bulged. “Were you dreaming of me?”
    “How do you know I wasn’t dreaming of Bradley Cooper?”
    “You think his nose is weird. You think his eyes are beady. He’s not your type.”
    “How the hell do you remember everything I say?”
    I smirked. I remember because I listen. I love the sound of her voice. How many times do I have to tell her that? I love everything about this pig-headed woman. “I’m only going to ask you one more time. Were you dreaming of him or me?” By him she knew I meant Jackass.
    Kari ’s eyes found mine. Her mouth slightly opened. “You.”
    She turned her face away from me. I know that had to be hard for her to admit. She was denying our connection for so long that she was stuck in a life where I was n’t