Sawyer
I moved into town a year ago. I've been put through hell, but when the dark hair stranger comes to my rescue my whole life gets flipped. He says he loves me but will that be enough to keep us together.
Mason
She's been on my mind since I saw...
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One Year Later
Trying to move on has been hard as fuck. This past year I've tried like hell to forget Mase. The damn man is ingrained into my soul forever fucking hard headed.
I took my time settling in and I got a job at the local diner near by to help save up. Once I had enough money I re-enrolled into my auto shop classes at the local mechanical college. I've also been slowly making over my gramps house to fit my more personal style. Being back in this home as been healing for me.
I got to visit both gramps and my dads graves again spending hours talking to them seeking advice I know would never come. Mason ripped my heart to shred with his cruel words but time away has helped me see that he didn't mean most of what he said. I realize now he was constantly drinking and that meant everything about him was not my Mason. Didn't make it hurt any less.
I tried re-connecting with the few old friends I had before but that was a bust. I never was very good at making friends. I noticed the house across from me for sale sign had finally come down so maybe my new neighbors would be friends. Of course that's if they wanted to be friends with a depressed introvert who's pinning after a man who doesn't want her.
I thought for sure he would come after me, but I realized eventually he wasn't coming. Though the last few weeks I keep feeling like I see them all out and about. I think I'm actually losing my mind. I swear I saw Liam at the grocery store the other day. His blonde hair and puppy dog eyes swishing by me. Oh and I swore I saw Mase leaving the diner on my way in for a shift. I could almost smell him it felt so real.
Cole had called me the day after I had left begging to know where I was and what happened. The others were on the phone with him as I explained what I was told and what Mase said to me. The boys said they understood my choice to leave but that I needed the truth and not what the blonde bimbo had led me to believe. They explained that while Kennedy was pregnant she was more like four to five months pregnant but since she was so thin to begin with her body wasn't really showing. That the guys and Mase thought it was more like a fifty percent chance it was his since she was sleeping with both him and another guy at the same time, and that is if everything she said was the truth.
Cole asked if I planned on returning which caused me to burst into to tears. I had no plan to return to the place, the man that broke my heart no matter how much it hurt. Mason may have ruined me for all other men but he made sure he was also ruined for me. The guys didn't offer up any excuses for him only agreeing that he is a jackass and Jackson letting me know he should have stepped in and stopped the excessive drinking earlier. They also all apologized for keeping the Kennedy shit a secret.
All that being said and the time and distance my love for Mase never fucking wavered. It grew in misery and hurt because all I wanted to do was climb into his lap again and have him tell me everything would be alright.
I was finishing up some basic maintenance to my car when the moving trucks pulled into the house across from me. Oh goody new people. I looked down at myself. My cutoff shorts and crop tank were covered in grease along with most of the exposed skin. My hair was haphazardly thrown into a messy bun that was already falling apart and my feet were bare and covered in garage yuck. I sighed wishing I could be more presentable but realistically these new people probably won't like me anyways. I don't know what it is that makes me so unlikable but here I am.
The guys getting out of the moving truck are very obviously not my new neighbors since their shirts match the decal on the side of said truck. So I pick up my space waiting for them to arrive. I'm definitely being nosey as I lurk longer than I probably should.
My spine stiffens when I hear the engine coming down the road. I'm not stupid I know I can't tell the car based off the sound but that's not all that's bringing me to the conclusion I've reached. It's the loud sound of my favorite song blasting through air from the cars open windows.
My mouth drops open as the charger pulls up the Jersey Boys song making my ears ring. I watch the door open and my chest squeezes as Mason steps out of the car. I gasp. My eyes watering as I watch the man I love glance around like he knows I'm here and when his forest green eyes meet mine my whole world stops. He's just as beautiful as I remember. His dark hair longer and falling into his eyes. That olive skin covered in tattoos and his signature dark jeans. That fucking smirk as he starts towards me.
I squeeze my eyes close before opening them. Yep he's still coming for me. I do it again trying to wake from my dream and I don't stop till he's right in front of me. Inhaling I smell the delicious cotton pine scent that clings to him. Trying to catch my breath. I don't want to look up at him so I keep my eyes pinned to that strong wide chest.
