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genuinely pleased. “Get you away from that Brock boy.”
    That’s the idea. “Yeah.” He was too tired to answer much further than that. “I’m cleaning up to go home, Dad. Can I help you with anything?”
    “Your mother would like for you to come over for dinner. We haven’t seen you in nearly a month.”
    He hated driving all the way out to the golf course where his parents lived. Hated the golf course and all the people he worked for. Most of the time he wished he wasn’t one of the people from that world. He’d far rather be from the neighborhood down by the quarry where Lex Barry’s family lived. At least those people were honest and not so damn pretentious.
“I’m really tired. Can we postpone for another weekend?”
     
“Drew.”
    “Is there something you guys wanted to talk to me about?” Might as well get it out in the open.
“We heard what happened at that last city council meeting.”
“Oh.” Of course they did.
His father cleared his throat uncomfortably. “Son, don’t you think it’s a bad idea to be with Brock when he’s acting a fool like that?”
“You know most of my business comes from him still.”
“Your mother would still like to talk to you. Please be at the house in an hour.”
“Okay.”
    Drew wondered what his problem was. He was always so afraid to ruffle feathers that half the time he went along with plans that he hated just to not piss anyone off. When had he become such a fucking pushover? Drew snorted. When was he ever not a pushover?
    The files he’d been working on were stowed neatly away, his jacket folded over the back of his ergonomically correct desk chair. Drew yanked his tie off and unbuttoned the top two buttons on his shirt. It wasn’t really a long drive out to his parents’ house at the country club. It wasn’t a long drive to anywhere in Rock Bay. It just felt like every time he went there he couldn’t breathe. They cared. He knew they did. But it seemed like they, along with Brock and everyone else, were running his life.
And he never did anything about it.
     
“
H
EY , Mase! How was your weekend?”
    His “weekend” had really been half of Tuesday and Wednesday, but Mason wasn’t complaining. He’d collapsed on his bed Tuesday afternoon with a book and had woken up the next morning with his face stuck to the same page he’d opened to right when he lay down. The rest of the day was spent reading and eating takeout that he’d dragged himself out of bed to get. Basically perfect as far as Mason was concerned.
    “It was nice. I just relaxed. I was so tired from last week.”
Amy nodded sympathetically. “It’ll get easier. It’s only been three weeks, right?”
Mason shook his head. “A little over a month, actually.”
“Really?”
    “Yeah. And I am getting used to the schedule, it’s just that double shift killed me last week. I was more than ready to crash all weekend.”
“And we’ve got another double coming up next week!” Amy gave him a sunny smile.
    “Noooo,” Mason whined. He smiled anyway, so Amy would know he was kind of kidding— even if doubles really sucked.
    “Hey, Mason, have I ever told you about my best friend, Lex?”
Mason sighed. He knew that look. “Um, Amy, I know we haven’t really talked about it, but I’m not….” He cringed. “Well, I’m not straight.” He thought she wasn’t either, but it still wasn’t his favorite topic to broach with near strangers.
Amy giggled. “I’m not stupid, hon. Lex is a guy .”
    “ Oh ….” Mason didn’t know what to say. “Well, the thing is, I’m not really dating. I got way too involved with this man in Seattle and—”
    “I’m not asking you to exchange promise rings with him. It’s just that he’s got this employee that I know he has a thing for, and I’d rather he had a thing for someone else, you know?”
    Mason raised his eyebrow. “And how do you think he’s going to like knowing that his best friend manipulated him?”
    “I’m not—”