Mason (Carter Brothers #2) - Lisa Helen Gray Page 0,13
perfectly with the sundress I’m wearing. Slipping them on, I notice my white cardigan on top of the pile of clothes in my case and grab it, tucking it over my arm before heading out.
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After picking up Max and Maverick we drove for thirty minutes before coming to a stop outside one of the biggest parks around our area. It’s beautiful. There’s a huge stage where live bands play and I guess today is one of those days. There is a mini fair towards the back of the park, where I can hear the screams of kids on rides. The arcades are not too far away from the rides and I smile widely when I see a candyfloss stand in the distance.
“Can we go get some candyfloss please?’’ I squeal, delighted.
“Why don’t you go find somewhere to sit, and make sure there is shade,’’ he says looking at Maverick before giving me a look. I don’t have time to figure out what the look meant because Mason grabs my hand. I try to pull away, but he just holds on tighter, sending delicious tingles up my arm.
“Can you get me a pic-a-mix and a bottle of Pepsi?’’ Harlow asks giddily, looking around the place. It’s the first time she’s come to one of our towns carnivals I realise, and I gasp in surprise horror.
“You cannot drink Pepsi. You need to try this amazing slush puppy, it’s to die for. The one year I got brain freeze, and then it started pissing it down with rain,’’ I shrug, and then laugh inside when I realise it’s the first time it hasn’t rained at one of these events. Usually the weather is so bad they have to cancel for another day.
“I’ll have both,’’ she giggles.
My giddy smile drops when Mason squeezes my hands tighter and I look up to him to find his jaw tense and his posture rigid. His eyes are stormy brown, staring at something in the distance. I follow his sight to see who has him shooting death glares and feel my own body growing tight and rigid. It’s my turn to squeeze his hand and step closer to him.
My parents are standing not far from where we’re all standing, throwing me a disgusted look, well my mother is anyway, my dad doesn’t know where to look.
Oh no! Please not here!
“Fuck,’’ I mumble when they start over here, my dad looking like he wants to run, but instead follows like the good dog he is.
“What are you doing here?’’ my mother hisses grabbing my arm so tight I wince.
“Let her go, now,’’ Mason growls shoving my mother’s hand from off my arm.
“Don’t talk to me you filthy scumbag,’’ she hisses at him and I look around mortified. Maverick’s jaw is hard, Malik looks bored, Harlow looks shocked, and Max looks like he’s two seconds away from pissing himself laughing. “I’ll ask again young lady, what are you doing here?’’
“I’m staying here. Evan let me sleep at his house until I am finished with court and I can go back to Nan’s.’’
“Thank God for that. Now go back to Evan’s. I don’t need people knowing what a hussy I have for a daughter,’’ she snaps and Mason growls from beside me, his hand loosening, but only to go around my shoulder.
“Your daughter isn’t going anywhere and she isn’t going to be going back to her Nan’s. She will be living with me.’’
“Well, no wonder you’re pregnant if you sleep with riff raff like that,’’ she sneers, looking Mason up and down with disgust.
“Are you going to let her talk to your daughter like that?’’ Mason snaps at my dad. I’m in complete shock and I can feel tears spring to my eyes.
“Come on Vivian, let’s go meet Robert and Darla,’’ my dad answers, his expression grim.
Max laughs shaking his head and my mother turns her scowl over to him, looking at him with the same expression she did with Mason.
“Something funny?’’ she snarls.
“Yeah you. You have a brilliant daughter right in front of you. She got good grades; she’s polite as fuck to everyone and hardly ever swears. She lost her virginity to my brother and got up the duff. Worse things could have happened ya know. She could have come back with an STD or on drugs. If you’re going to stand there looking disgusted, go direct it in a mirror. That’s where the disgust should be aimed.’’