Double Coverage (43 page)

She deserved that, Piper thought. “He’s not my fiancé,” Piper said, trying to hold her head up.

“That’s not what I heard. It was really fun to find out about your engagement from the media while I was in the locker room, a couple feet away from your douche bag of a fiancé.” Mason shook his head and then said, “I have nothing to say to you besides stop fucking with me and get out of my life.”

He went to shut the door, but Piper stopped him by squeezing her body in the doorway.

“Stop. I broke it off. I don’t love Jax, I love you. I’m in love with you, Mason. It’s always been you. I have been an idiot this past week…these past weeks. I’ve been too damn stubborn to give in to my real feelings for you, but it wasn’t until I realized I could lose you forever that I knew I needed to be with you. Mason, I can’t be without you. I love you so much. I need you just as much as you need me.”

“What are you doing to me?” Mason asked in a strangled voice.

Piper took a step forward and put her hands on his chest, reveling in the warmth of his skin.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry for everything Mace. Please believe me when I say this is it for me, you are it. I want to be with you. I want to be able to walk down the street, holding your hand and not worry about who might see us. I want to go on vacation with you and experience new things with you without juggling my other life. Please forgive me.”

“Jesus. Piper, I don’t know what to say. I’ve been waiting so long to hear you say those words, but how can I believe you?”

Piper didn’t give him another chance to speak. She pulled his head down to hers and captured his mouth with the passion that was running rampant through her veins. She wanted to show him how much she loved him, how much she cared and how he was the only man for her. She moved her lips across his as she pulled his body as close to hers as she possibly could.

“Excuse me?”

Piper froze mid-kiss at the sound of someone else’s voice. Piper pulled away and, out of the corner of her eye, saw a figure in the doorway of Mason’s bedroom. Piper whipped her head around and made eye contact with Brooke wearing Mason’s shirt and nothing else. Piper instantly backed away from Mason and started shaking her head, while saying no repeatedly.

“Piper wait…” Mason said, while pulling her into him.

“Get the fuck away from me. Don’t you dare fucking touch me.” Piper made eye contact with Mason and saw instant regret and hurt in his eyes. “How dare you fucking touch me when she was in the other room. This is over. I told you I would not tolerate you being with her.”

Fire enveloped Mason’s eyes. “You are such a fucking hypocrite. You’ve been with Jax this whole time and I’ve dealt with that. The only reason she is here is because I thought you were engaged.”

“Wow, you really took some time mourning our relationship.”

“What relationship? I wouldn’t consider a few fucks behind everyone’s back a relationship.”

“Fuck you, Mason.”

“NO! Fuck you, Piper. Get out of here. I deserve someone better than your pathetic ass who strings men along by their hearts, not caring whether or not you break them. You are a conniving bitch and I should have left you alone a while ago, but for some God damn reason, my heart needed you. For some damn reason, you made me feel again and you made the light come back in my life, but boy, was I wrong. If I knew you were going to break me in half more than Brooke ever did, then never in my life would I have gotten involved with you. You have completely broken me, Piper.”

With that, Mason shut the door in Piper’s face, ending any kind of chance she had at being with him and any future she might have in Denver. She knew she had overreacted to Brooke, but then again, she couldn’t bear the fact that Mason was with Brooke and now that he was, she couldn’t stay around to see how their relationship blossomed in the public eye. No, she had to get out of Denver. She needed to go elsewhere.

Where she was going, she had no clue, but all she knew was it was going to be sunny and she was going to go to a place where there was no football…

To be continued…

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