


I wasn’t sure if he knew and to be truthful, I didn’t want to be included in their relationship. When Garrett arrived from Boston, I hadn’t the heart to tell him about Helen’s arrival. Helen booked herself a hotel room in town, and the guys had stayed with her for the last two nights. The parents hadn’t clued us in to their family meeting, what was talked about, what they had decided, or if there had been anything to decide in the first place. When he replied that he didn’t know, it seemed to pain him. I ventured once to ask Mason when Nate would come back and his jaw hardened.

He said that they deemed him an unhealthy influence. They hadn’t been happy about his involvement and Logan confessed one night that they blamed Mason for all of Nate’s troubles. Mason and Logan returned to school that Tuesday while Nate was shipped to Brazil with his parents. I figured my turn was coming up, but I wasn’t rich so I wasn’t sure what to do. Lunch was spent at a restaurant every day and I realized they took turns fitting the bill. We stopped for my morning coffee so I was happy. When I turned to glare at him, he kissed me on the lips and tapped my butt. I glared at his back, but Mason chuckled behind me. Logan took off in the yellow Escalade, but not after he riffled a hand through my hair and kissed my cheek. Nate had gone to pick his parents up at the airport.
