Which, okay, wasn’t a question that surprised him anymore. Mason had a feeling, with the strange man out of the picture, small town gossip was going to center around him for a while. Which meant everyone noticed he’d headed out to Jack’s every day for the past week.
The question was still kinda embarrassing though because he’d become predictable enough for near strangers to notice. “I went already,” he admitted as he ignored the hot flush across the bridge of his nose. “He wasn’t home.”
Hadley narrowed his eyes at Mason, not in alarm, more like suspicion if he had to guess. “It’s been a week now and no one has seen him since you came back that night.”
“He was fine when I left!” Startled by his own loudness, Mason reined it back in and dropped his voice. Yes, it was technically a lie. Ja
