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"And we’ll also be fucking again You said if I’ood"

Yeah, it was "Greedy, aren’t you?" Mason reached over and rubbed his spunk into Gavin’s chest, loving the feel of the coarse hair there "Tell me more about your job and how all that shit went down"

Before Mason had all the words out, Gavin already began shaking his head "Not right now It’ll put ht now"

He liked that about Gavin--he was a man who told the truth He didn’t blow off the question or divert He said exactly why he didn’t want to answer it at this tih"

"What about you? Would your parents really have been so upset if you opened a bar earlier?"

Mason let his head roll to the side so he could look at Gavin What a sight they probablylife "Yes and no It’s all about expectation I know you understand that part of it They loved me with all they had They wanted the best for me They wanted to pass down their lifetime of hard work to me I’m an only child As far as I knew, my parents tried for years to have a baby and they finally had me They tried for years after I was born and never had any more Of course now I see that’s because I was never really theirs--"

"Yeah, you are," Gavin interrupted

Mason let his eyes fall closed, frustrated "You’re right I shouldn’t have said that They’ve always beenfor Mason That’s alking away from their dream for hi on his own He’d thought he could handle working on Creekside and then either selling it or hiring someone to run it for hi away Even for them He loved them, so it felt like a betrayal not to want Alexander’s

Because they were his parents He was back at that He was lucky to have the family he did

He flinched when he felt Gavin’s thuht Your forehead is wrinkled"

"Maybe if you straighten thehts won’t be there anyht have it in hiet about it for a while