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"Why? It doesn’t change anything"

He sighed "No, I guess it doesn’t It ot his stubbornness fro across fro up with all of this?"

Scared Overwhelh Buying another restaurant? Now just doesn’t seem like it’s the best tih "I’ht, but I also think Isaac can handle it He knohat he’s doing If it was the three of you, I wouldn’t doubt it, but with your dad sick, and you…" She took a sip of her coffee "You don’t want to be here, Mason I know that Isaac and your father see it I know things have been…difficult, but we love you Alexander’s was supposed to be yours, and I don’t see why that’s changed just because we’re not…" She shook her head as though she couldn’t finish Guilt swung and kicked at all of Mason’s internal organs

"That’s not what it is I left before I knew" But they’d thought he planned to co How could he explain to the woman who raised him that he felt trapped? That he felt out of place here, and at Alexander’s? That he’d even felt trapped with Isaac That he woke up oneand realized he didn’t know for sure what he wanted, but it wasn’t the life he led It would only hurt her, onlyEverything is fine I should go shower Isaac and I aresoon"

His ether"

Because all they’d ever really cared about ork "He’ll always be a part of our lives He’s as in love with Alexander’s as Dad is We won’t get back together, though"

"Are you sure?" She raised a brow the way Mason often did

"You’re a daossip" He winked at her "It won’t happen Plus, I’ someone else" He went to stand and realized his mistake Now the questions would come

"Sit your ass back down, Mason Alexander You have so to do! How is it my only son is in a relationship and I don’t know about it?"

Her eyes ide, as though she wasn’t sure if she should have said that, and damned if that didn’t hurt Mason wasn’t sure if it was because he felt guilty she would be insecure to call him her son, or because he needed her to be confident in who he was, so he himself could be

"It’s relatively new, and I don’t even know if it’s serious" Which was the biggest fucking lie he’d told in a long ti him around We’d love to meet him"

Mason leaned over and kissed her cheek "We’ll see Things are a little hectic for both of us right noithout trying to arrange faet in the shower before I’m late to meet Isaac"

Mason reached the kitchen door before he stopped and looked back at her "I love you, Mom"

Her eyes welled with tears "I love you, too, son"

Gavin’s car idled in his mother’s driveway Mason’s dad’s stroke was a constant reminder that you just never kneould happen His parents were older Neither of the happened to one of theetting out of the car, he headed for the front door, and knocked He’d done that since the day he moved out--knocked on his parent’s door It used to surprise hiuessed that was pretty normal His family just had a different kind of relationship than Braden had with his

It took his et to the door He heard both locks before it slowly pulled open

"Oh, Gavin I’ for you The whole church is praying that you’d be okay and that you’d find your way back hoht the urge to tell her he hadn’t found his way back anywhere She’d asked him to leave, so he had He didn’t need their prayers because there was nothing wrong with hiht about what I said You see what your lifestyle has done, how it caused you to lose your job and threatened your family"