Intimidation

Mason

“I’m not playing games with you, Mason. I came to warn you. That’s all. And if Mark found out I was here, he’d be furious with me, and he’d… he’d make sure I knew never to do it again.” Evelyn licked her lips and looked down at her feet.

And I laughed. It hurt my ribs, but I laughed anyway, and I kept going until I was clutching my side in pain and she was staring at me like I’d been overcome with madness.

“Mason?”

I got a hold of myself and straightened up, my ribs aching horribly. “If you’re trying to manipulate me into feeling sympathy for you, you’ve come to the wrong guy, Evelyn. You made your bed. Now you can go lie in it.”

“I’m afraid of him,” she whispered.

“You knew who Mark Denning was before you spread your legs for him. Now he’s all yours. If you need saving, it’s not going to be me who comes for you. Fuck that. This shit?” I gestured back and forth between the two of us. “Is over. It was over a