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"Okay, fine. So you know all that stuff. But did you know that he hasn't had a girlfriend since high school?"

"How could you possibly know that?"

"Deep, deep Facebook stalking."

"And you said I don't have a life? Is that what you were doing all weekend?"

"I was looking out for you."

"I know." I bit the inside of my lip. "He told me on our first date that he didn't do the whole relationship thing."

"You never told me that."

"I didn't think I was ever going to see him again."

"And what about now? Are you okay with that now?"

"I don't know. I mean, he's not acting like he wants to stop seeing me. He's picking me up after work."

"Is he seeing anyone else?"

"I don't think so." He had said he hadn't been to any of those clubs since he had met me. But that didn't meant he wasn't dating anyone else. Or that we were in fact dating. He had said he wasn't going to share me. That I was his. "I think that maybe he's changed."

"Overnight? I don't think so, Bee. He's a playboy."

"A playboy? I don't think he's actually like that. He's a really nice guy."

"You should Google image search him. He's with a different woman in every picture. I think you need to be realistic about what you're getting yourself into."

"I'm really just trying to enjoy the present for once."

"So you really don't care at all that you're just one of many?"

It didn't feel that way when I was with him. When we were together it seemed like he couldn't get enough of me. He only wants me, right?

"He's a rich, intelligent bachelor with commitment issues. Just be careful, okay?"

A pit in my stomach was forming. Mason had said that I was his. But he had never said that he was mine.

Chapter 51

Mason

I pulled my phone out and looked at it under the table. I had gotten into a routine the past two weeks. In the morning, I woke up and fucked Bee. I went to work all day and tried not to think about her. And then I came home at night and fucked her again. It had been the best two weeks of my life. She had somehow transported me back to high school where I had no control over my erections. And my dick knew it was time. But instead of being with her, I was at a bar with James and his little brother. That would normally be fun, but tonight I just wanted to fuck Bee and then curl up on the couch with her and watch whatever was on T.V.

My cell phone screen was blank. She still hadn't texted me. Who worked this late on a Friday night? I slid my phone back into my pocket.

"Dude, you've got it bad." James' little brother, Rob, was visiting from out of town. And he had a tendency to tell it like it was. He had liked pushing my buttons ever since we were kids. But now that we were adults, I couldn't just beat him up whenever he pissed me off.

I laughed. "Yeah, right." I took a sip of my beer and looked away from him.

"Please don't tell me you're going to turn into my brother," Rob said.

"Penny's hot, but she's a little young for me."

James cleared his throat. "Have either of you been following the government shutdown? It really seems like it's going to happen. Without the FCC..."

"No one wants to talk about that," Rob said. "Stop being boring. Back to you." He pointed at me. "This girl has got a hold on you."

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