Chapter 38

Ava’s POV

The silence in the kitchen was ear piercing as Mason coughed awkwardly before walking out of the kitchen while I made my way to the fridge to pick out a bowl.

Making myself a bowl of cereal, I started eating before hearing footsteps and I looked up to see Mason in the kitchen with me once again, with one of his arms resting at the side of the doorway.

“Do you care?” I demanded, gesturing to my own bowl of cereal. He didn’t respond and without thinking, I decided to make him a bowl anyway, which he cleared up super fast.

Mason finished and proceeded to wash his bowl without saying a thank you. I regarded him with an irritated scowl before speaking. His rude manners are why I didn’t like him in the first place.

“Didn’t your mother teach you any manners?” I had already finished talking before I realized what I had said.

My jaw was clenched as I turned to look at him, and his eyes were darker than they usually were, along with his expression being blank.

I remembered Danny te