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edge of the road and pulled the brake.
    I couldn’t hold in the giggle as I pulled at the door
handle and shot from the car, my eyes shooting around as I tried to make out my
surroundings and escape my husband, hell bent on avengement.
    “Oh Ava” he sang chirpily from behind me but I laughed
some more and vaulted the wooden gate that led into a dark field.
    “Oh Mason” I mimicked as I ploughed through the long
grass and made my way over to a little opening lit by a small lamp.
     
    I made it to a cluster of trees and darted behind one,
holding my chest as I tried to calm my frantic breathing and remain quiet.
    My eyes zipped around looking for any shadows as my ears
pricked at the air in an attempt to pick up any rustle or movement.
    It was eerily silent and I frowned after a while,
questioning whether Mason had followed me or not but I jolted when I heard
movement behind me, the complete opposite direction from where Mason would be.
My body hardened in alert as my fists clenched and my feet shuffled apart,
widening my stance and readying my body to fight.
    “ Mason? ” I whispered harshly as I narrowed my eyes
and tried to focus against the dark background. “ Mason!”
    Another twig snapped and the hairs on my body snapped
with it as I shot round and peered in the direction it had come from. “Mason, I
swear to…. Oh shit!!”
    My body stiffened as I felt backwards with a foot and
shuffled slowly away from the beautiful but very angry badger showing me how
awesomely sharp his teeth were. It was growling with a deep low rumble and I
smiled at it, showing him how pretty my face was and that it didn’t need
mauling.
    “Fuck Ava, you’ve gone mad!”
     
    I took another slow step back as I tried to stop
breathing, just to quieten everything around me but Mr Badger obviously didn’t
like me as he continued with his furious rant, snarling and glaring at me as I
scuffled further back. “I am a really nice person, I promise I won’t hurt you”
I told him with as much tenderness as I could muster.
    “He doesn’t speak English, Ava” Mason hissed in my ear
from behind and I jumped out of my skin but he yanked me back against him, grabbed
my hand and ran… fast.
    My legs weren’t as long as Mason’s and I kept stumbling
until he growled at me and flung me over his shoulder, continuing to run at an
amazing speed as he threw me over the gate and clambered over it after me.
    I landed, huddled nicely into a humungous pile of horse…
    Yep, that fucking stuff!
     
    Mason stared at me with wide eyes as I glared up at him,
my chest heaving not from the strain of running but from a quiet mortification
bubbling away inside me.
    He swallowed and I could see his cheeks slowly being
sucked in as his lips disappeared behind his teeth and his eyes closed.
    “You dare, you fucking dare!” I warned as I watched him
pull in his fingers and clench his fists desperately as one of his feet titled
inwards towards the other.
    “I swear you laugh and I will divorce you.”
    His leg twitched and his chest stuttered as he squeezed
his eyes tighter and started to chew on his bottom lip. “ Mason!”
    A weird long humming sound rumbled from him and I
narrowed my eyes further as he lowered his face and screwed his eyes tighter
but I watched in horror as a single tear dribbled from the corner of his eye
and trickled down his cheek. “MASON!”
    My shout was his release as he doubled over and grabbed
at his belly, his loud snorts scaring the fucking owls as they shot off in
different directions and Mason braced his knees to support his vibrating body.
    My brows rose when he laughed louder, his thunderous cackles
echoing around us in the silence of the night until he was laughing so hard he
was struggling to breathe and clenching his side as a stitch gripped his
muscles.
     
    “Oh – my – god!” he groaned when he eventually stopped
with the stupid laughter. There was absolutely no need for it; I mean it just
wasn’t