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stomach; when he’d gone back to the house, and seen the destruction left in the wake of her rapid departure, he’d panicked. He couldn’t go through that again.
     
    Sooner or later, he was going to have to admit to this woman that he was falling in love with her. His stomach twisted at the thought of it. He was fairly sure that facing down Declan would be easier.
     
    ***
     
    Caroline woke up as the car slowed down. She rubbed her eyes and wiped the drool off her chin, blinking around blearily as she waited for reality to catch up with her. Yes, they were in Jack’s neighborhood, on the other side of town from her. She stretched as best as she could in the car, and then glanced over at Mason again. His grip on the wheel was still white-knuckled; if possible, it was even tighter.
     
    “We're here,” she said, and he nodded once, too fast. “You okay?”
     
    His laugh was quick and brutal. “If it were just me and the dog, Caro, We’d be driving west as fast as this little import would go. I’d put together a new bike in Seattle and we’d start over. But it’s not just us. I wish to hell it was, but it’s not.”
     
    “Of course it’s not,” she said, and she read surprise in his face as she laid her hand on his thigh. After a moment, he covered her hand with his, squeezing tight. “They’re your family. You need to protect them. I get it.”
     
    The surprise was even thicker on his face now. “I didn’t think—”
     
    “That a suit like me would ever get it?”
     
    He snorted a laugh. “Yeah, basically.”
     
    She shrugged. “For what it’s worth, I didn’t think I would, either. But...yeah.” She squeezed his hand again. “So...if you’re leaving me at Jack and Missy’s, and they’re going to enforce your crazy lockdown...you realize what’s likely to be the evening's entertainment?”
     
    “I’m counting on you telling me all about it later.”
     
    Caroline laughed out loud. “Just make sure there will be a ‘later’ when I can tell you about it, all right?”
     
    “Agreed.”
     
    They pulled into the driveway of Jack and Missy’s two-story Colonial. She’d been there a few times, for office parties and such, but she’d never really managed to socialize outside of that. It felt odd, that this was her refuge, but where else was she really ever going to go?
     
    Mason pulled the car into the waiting garage, then turned off the engine. After a moment, he touched Caroline’s hand again. “There’s something I need you to know—”
     
    The door to the house opened, and Jack was standing on the top step. Mason pulled his hand back so fast that Caroline almost thought she might have given him a burn. “Did you find her? Was she okay?”
     
    Caroline stepped out of the car, and Jack nearly ran around to her side to hug her.
     
    “I need to go,” Mason said, walking back over to his bike, which had been stashed against the front wall of the garage. “I need to talk to some people, get some information. We need to deal with this, as quickly as possible. Before anyone else gets hurt.”
     
    He reached a hand out to Jack, and there was no hesitation before Jack shook it firmly. “I got her up here. You guys make sure she doesn’t run off and do something stupid, okay?”
     
    “Hello,” Caroline said. “Standing right here.”
     
    Mason reached forward, curled his arm around her waist, and pulled her into his chest with one quick motion. “Be here when I come back.”
     
    “Okay,” she said, her heart rabbiting in her chest. She expected his kiss to be hard, forceful, and passionate. Instead, it was feather light and sweet, a delicate butterfly brush of his lips over hers.
     
    “See you soon,” he whispered, and then he was walking to his motorcycle and gone. She had the strangest, nearly overwhelming urge to cry.
     
    “Come inside,” Missy said. “Let’s get some dinner.”
     
    She stayed still until she couldn’t hear the engine of his bike any more,