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comforter neatly folded and tucked under h is arm. My eyes tuned into his biceps. Why was I looking at his muscular arms? It’s not like I hadn’t seen them before. Mason sat on the edge of the bed beside me and opened the folded comforter. He tossed it around my shoulders. He began to worriedly rub me while I was wrapped in the warmth of the comforter. He pulled me in close. He embraced me and rubbed my back. I held in a sigh. No! No! No! This fool kidnapped you. 
    Mason pulled back and looked into my eyes. “Kari, I know you don’t believe me but I’m sorry about all of this.”
    “Mason, enough is enough. Let me go.” I was pouting.
    “I’m not going to do that.” He was telling the truth. I had misread so much but his eyes registered as truthful. He wasn’t going to let me go.
    “Why not?” I asked hoping he would give me a straight answer.
    “Many reasons but you were going on a two week honeymoon vacation s o that is two weeks that you would have been gone.”
    “You are seriously trying to keep me for two weeks?”
    “I know you got your marriage license a week ago.”
    “Yeah so?”
    “The marr iage license only lasts for sixty days. The longer you’re away from him the better for me. I want your time to run out but I can’t keep you for sixty days.”
    “Mason you are a conniving bastard.”
    “Well no one’s perfect.” He smirked and pushed a loose strand of my hair behind my ear.
    “Do you think this is a joke?”
    “No, I take this very serious. I’m risking my freedom for you.”
    “I never asked you too.”
    “If you turn me in to the cops, I could go to jail.”
    “Yes you will go to jail. So why are you doing this?”
    “You are worth the risk. No matter where I am on this planet I will always love you. I can love you from the Will County jail.”
    Pause, what did this fool just say? “This is low, the lowest most desperate thing you have ever done. You kidnapped me. This is fuckin’,” I was searching for a proper descriptor. “Outlandish. You’re not thinking rationally.”
    “You’re right. I’m not but I don’t care. I just love you.”
    “Stop saying that you love me. You are a lunatic.”
    “I’m not a lunatic . I’m a man in love. You are all there is for me. How can I live a life where you are not mine?”
    “ Oh Mason I don’t belong to you.”
    “ We belong to each other. I have searched for some other possibilities but I can’t find anything that will make me not love you. So this is where we are.”
    “You can love me and let me go. You can love me and just be cool.”
    Mason took my hand in his and I didn’t do anything to stop him. “You’re not listening. I cannot be cool. I don’t know how to do that. Please Kari Lynn, I’m open to any suggestions. Do you think I want to be such a jag-off, such a lovesick bastard? Tell me how to stop loving you. I’ve tried and nothing seems to work.”
    “Mason all the words you say are lies.”
    “You know that isn’t true. I love you. I breathe you. Tell me you don’t love me. Tell me you just turned that shit off.”
    “It doesn’t matter what I s ay. You don’t care how I feel.” I snatched my hand from his.
    “No sweetheart you don’t care how I feel. You sat in my face and talked about your wedding plans. You talked about your future with Jack. That killed me. You broke my heart.”
    “You never left your wife. You broke my heart.”
    “So we’re even.”
    “Hell to the naw. It was okay for you to pretend that you were happy for me? I really thought you were happy for me. You are a snake.”
    “Yeah, I’m a snake and you’re a mouse. I will eat you, swallow you whole. Do you want me to eat you?”
    No, no, he was trying to make this sexual. That was something my old lover Mason would say. My friend Mason never said things like that to me. Mason was such a good actor. I’m not ever having sex with his crazy ass. Time to change the subject, you can’t eat me. No touching, no kissing,