Chapter 9: Kayden

“Okay, it’s been hours and you are still not crazy happy like you usually are when I come back after more than a week. I was gone for a month! You are supposed to be over the moon!” Mason says as he throws his hands up in exaggeration. I roll my eyes at my best friend.

“I am happy to have you back, bro!” I tell him. Mason Trey Cooper has been my best friend for as long as I remember. We’ve been inseparable since the beginning. I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t friends with him.

“You are clearly distracted. What’s the matter? Or should I ask, who is the matter?” Mason asks with a smirk on his face. I give him a bored look as if to say, ‘really?’. “Come on! Is it your new wife? The one you had to marry?” He asks, his expression turning sour.

“She’s not that bad, Mace.” I tell him, feeling defensive about Aviana