Chapter 15. An Offer. A Partnership

Mason’s POV

Ava froze at my question, her fingers tightened on her fork and at that moment, I got the answer I was looking for: I was right.

She blinked and tried to act composed, “I…I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

I raised an eyebrow and placed my elbow on the table and leaned closer to her. “Come on, Ava. Don’t insult the other person’s intelligence.”

She leaned into her chair, her mouth pursed into a line. There was this tight wire of tension between us, a tight string that the two of us weren’t going to cut, holding our breath for the other one to release first.

And then finally she said, “How did you know?”

I smiled. “I recall the first time we met when I had helped you with your situation with Garret. The reaction you had when I told you my last name was not ordinary.”

Ava said nothing, her face turned away.

“I wanted to let it go like it was nothing,” I went on.

“But the second I looked over your tenant for