Ward's Castle by Ella Goode

Author:Ella Goode [Goode, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-11T18:30:00+00:00

12

LILA

What is Beau trying to do to me? This isn’t the first time he’s brought up Mason and me being together. It isn’t even the second or third. He’s done it over a dozen times now. At least to me. He’s only said it to Mason twice that I know of. Who knows what he says when I’m not around? First he brought it up with the whole dating thing and now with getting married. I think he might be up to something, but I might be wrong.

Each time a want that I always try to hide comes rushing to the surface. The crush I’ve had on Mason begs to be out in the open. I have to shove it back down every time and stuff it away where it belongs.

It does make it harder to shove those feelings aside when Mason is always reassuring Beau that there is no other woman in his life. A relief fills me every time he says it. As much as I love hearing it, I also have to face the fact of what that relief I feel means.

I’m in love with Mason. And while he might never shove Beau aside, if one day he did find himself a wife, I might have to leave. I’m not sure it’s something I could bear to watch. To see another woman come in and fill a space that in my head has always belonged to me. Even if I try to deny it to myself. Late at night when I dream of what I want in life, Mason is what I see.

Sometimes I do wonder if he is right, though, that it would be better if I was to go off to college far away. Then maybe this dream I have will start to fade away. What if there was some woman out there that could give them more than I ever could? I am, after all, broken. The unwanted girl.

“You don’t like it?” Beau asks, breaking me from my thoughts. Both he and Mason are staring at me.

“I love it.” I force a smile on my face and go back to staring at the screen, having no clue what is going on in the movie.

I can feel Mason’s eyes on me. I do my best to block it and everything else, trying to get lost in the movie. I grab one of the throw pillows off the sofa and stretch out, my eyes growing heavy.

I must drift off at some point because when I wake two big arms are wrapped around me, carrying me through the house. I keep my eyes closed as Mason lays me down on my bed and pulls a blanket over me.

I don’t know how long he stands there, but it has to be a few minutes before I hear him move and flip off the light before closing my bedroom door. Was he watching me sleep? A rush of heat settles between my thighs thinking about Mason merely watching me sleep.

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