Moments with Mason by Theresa Paolo

Author:Theresa Paolo [Paolo, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theresa Paolo
Published: 2018-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Cassie loved Mason’s family. They were warm and welcoming and they made her feel like she was part of the family. Even Matt seemed to have lightened up, joking around and sharing stories of the past. He was in jeans and a flannel shirt, his wife sitting on his lap and Cassie wondered if it was him that had originally intimidated her or if it was his uniform.

She was so quick to judge people, like she did to that poor bartender at Calhoun’s. He reminded her of Dylan with his tattoos and leather vest, and she’d automatically grouped him in a category he didn’t deserve to be in. He was nothing but nice to her just as Matt had been ever since she walked into the door.

It was her trust issues that she was constantly battling with. She didn’t want to trust so easily, but maybe in doing so she was immediately shutting people out. She had spent enough time with Mason to know that she could trust him yet she couldn’t bring herself to fully believe it. As if she was waiting for him to mess up so she could congratulate herself on knowing he was too good to be true.

But as she sat back and watched him interact with his family, see the respect they had for each other, the love and devotion, she could no longer deny the fact that she did trust him and, more than that, she was falling for him. It scared the living daylights out of her.

The last time she’d fallen fast and hard, she’d became a victim, lost control of who she was, and put her life on the line. And for what? Dylan might have given her a place to live, but as time moved on, her home became her prison. She had been so blinded by the idea of having someone that she’d allowed him to own her and treat her like an object instead of a person.

Mason wasn’t Dylan. If she hadn’t been so blinded, she would have seen the signs way before that first hand to the cheek. She knew what to look for now, and her eyes were wide open. Mason didn’t possess any of those traits. He was good. He was someone she could see a future with. A happy future.

And maybe that’s what scared her most of all; if she learned anything in her life, it was that joy never lasted long.

Mason caught her eye across the room, and just like every time he looked at her, heat coursed through her veins. Electricity sparked inside of her, breathing new life into her. When she looked at him, she couldn’t help but want the fairytale. Hadn’t she been through enough? Didn’t she deserve a little happiness?

She liked to believe she did. She liked to believe that after years of not being wanted, losing the only woman who did want her, followed by years in a relationship with a man who only wanted to control her, she could finally truly be happy.

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