Page 93 of Darkness

“If I have nothing to say, I don't talk.” He shrugs this answer to me, as if I’m boring him.

“Well, your brother is definitely not the same as you.”

“No, he's not. Oh Autumn, I'm special, and he's not.” Mason tells me, and Katy walks back over to us.

“Oh, Katy. Katy. Katy, if all us Crawford brothers really put in the effort. I'm sure we can get you with all four of us.”

“Oh god,” I whisper as I walk away from this conversation, because I have a feeling Katy wouldn't even say no. She liked fifty shades of gray, she might be up for more than one guy at a time. “I'm sure the four of us could make you scream and not walk for weeks.” Now she not only has Miles, and Declan making her feel amazing, she now has Mason too. These boys are crazy.

“You four are very confident with yourselves, aren't you?” I hear Katy.

“We're confident because it's true, we would make you scream.”

“And yet not one of you has a girlfriend.”

“Why would we want to have a girlfriend when we have women opening their legs for us?” Mason’s tone is one I would happily slap out of him, arrogant. That’s the best word.

“You slept with your school teacher too, didn't you?”

“And my college one.” Mason adds with pride.

“So you four, are never getting into a relationship?” Katy asks him.

“Never say never, look at Cain. Never thought he was going to find someone. So who knows?” Now I look over at Mason, he honestly sounds shocked Cain has found someone.

Mason puts his cell away and walks around the back to me, he hasn't really left my side. I wanted to get coffee, and he said, Katy can go get it, or he comes with me, so he came with me, and I regretted it the moment we walked through the door. All eyes were on him, every single woman in the coffee shop stared at him, and you could see them undressing him in their heads. Cain's gorgeous, tall, and absolutely model worthy, and the four of them are all the same.

“Are you ready to close up?” he asks.

“Yep, just got to get these all in the file, and we're ready to go.” I smile at him, and he takes them from me and starts putting them away.

“Autumn!” Katy shouts.

“Yeah?”

“You… someone…. you might want to come out here.” My head snaps to Mason, hearing Katy’s tone. I already know who it is.

Straight away, and without moving, we have a conversation, and Mason is on the cell to Cain. I can hear the ringing tone, and Mason leans in closer to me.

“Do not say anything about Cain,” he demands, and I nod my head. “Check your camera’s, he’s here. What do you want me to do? I could kill him, I mean, that would be more fun.” I can't hear what Cain’s telling him, but Mason's shaking his head, so I'm assuming he can't kill him.

Mason hands me the cell, and with shaking hands I take it from him. “Go talk to him. Act normal, Mason's right there with you. He might slip up and say something stupid. I'll be on the cell the whole time. He doesn't know I'm on the cell-”

“But, but.”

“Hey, hey, Autumn-Rose, my girl's a fighter, and you've got the crazy brother with you.” Cain comforts me trying to calm down, and it’s crazy but it’s worked.

“Okay,” I whisper, handing the cell back to Mason.

“Okay, I'm going out with her.”

Walking out to the front of the shop, I glance over at Katy as Rowan shuts the shop door, and turns the sign around to say closed.

“You shouldn't be here.” I find the courage to talk to him.

He turns around and just stares at me, tilting his head. “You still look so beautiful. The first day I saw you, I knew you were the one. You look exactly the same-”

“What do you want, Rowan?”

---