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"Play for me Let me see your music, Gav I already see you"

Damned if he didn’t know Mason did see him Probably more than anyone had Hell, maybe it didn’t make sense Maybe it was too soon, or the fact that they both had soon in their lives, but all he kneas that Mason saw hiers pluck one of the strings The sound cas and played again He continued, working the guitar to get the sound right for a good "

Mason chuckled "Thanks for he heads up, but I can see that"

"I thought maybe you didn’t kno since you never do it"

"Always trying to bust norance to hook a sexy ht when his heart came alive at the sound of the notes That’s whatLet his fingers dance up and down the frets as he played the softon it since, and figured this was the right tilanced up and could see the recognition in his lover’s green eyes Da else, too--respect? Awe? Passion? Maybe a mixture of all of theers h they had a ht that at thismusic to Mason for the first time

His e to open hishi in front of people Hell, it wasn’t so the times he’d be alone with his music

The bed shifted and he looked up to see Mason s touched as they both sat cross-legged in the middle of the co around theainst Gavin’s The air smelled like sex, and Mason, and he realized s thatthe …"

He opened his eyes at Mason’s words Looked and his lover as he continued to speak "That’s really the only ti do you open yourself up the way you do when you play" Mason shrugged "This is the real Gavin The person I’ht now I’m a selfish bastard because I want to be the only one to see him, but I can’t do that This is who you need to show to the world"

Gavin didn’t kno to respond to that, so he didn’t He just continued to play

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

"We need to talk" Isaac slaht for the office Mason didn’t have reat few days with Gavin to get an urgent call from his ex Those never ell, and he had no doubt this would be the saument, they hadn’t talked at all unless it ork-related By the hard set of Isaac’s body, Mason could tell that though this had to do with Alexander’s, the tension was still there

Isaac collapsed in one of the chairs and Mason the other one "What happened?" Mason asked, his body feeling set in cement It wasn’t as if they all didn’t already have toothey needed was another pile added on Isaac didn’tas easy, like when it ca didn’t oing on, he let it roll off his shoulders because he thought he could handle anything

One look at Isaac, and Mason knehatever he had to say would seriously fuck things up for theo The nuone, unaccounted for Oh, and Bryce is MIA"

Mason went rigid He knew it, fucking knew they had tooon to pay attention the way they should "What do you er?"

"He decides not to open the restaurant one day and no one has seen hi I’d just pulled out the nuo over theot a call fro outside the restaurant The doors were locked and Bryce is nowhere to be found"