Chapter 276

He kissed the top of her head and murmured in appreciation, she felt his gratefulness - if that was the right word, and she couldn’t even be sure of that right then - in the tightening of his arms around her. “You said your parents died when you were young and that your aunt raised you. Did you have a very liberal upbringing?” “No, not at all,” she replied. “My aunt was strict, but…” “Go on,” he said after a moment. “I don’t really know how to explain it. She was strict about some things and then others she wasn’t fussed about. But it wasn’t just that, sometimes the things that she was strict about, for some reason, she decided weren’t that important anymore. It was like she kept moving the fences. I would just learn where the boundaries were and then she would change her mind and they would shift.” Mason moved, rolling her off his lap and onto the bed and then shuffling himself down so that they were lying side by side facing each other. He used a finger to tuck some of her hair behin