Todos los capítulos de Mr. Hayes’ Secret Heir: Capítulo 81 - Capítulo 88

The shot came from Mason's driver. He fired straight at Ruben's hand, and the gun dropped from his grip. He had Ruben pinned before I could process any of it."Mia." Mason's hands were on my shoulders, his voice cutting through the ringing in my ears. "Get in the car. Take Lior home."That snapped me out of my frozen state. I grabbed his face, checking him over. "Are you hurt? Mason, are you—""I'm fine." He steered me toward the driver's side. "Please. Get Lior out of here. I'll be right behind you. I promise."My hands were shaking so badly it took two tries to get the door open. I don't remember much of the drive beyond gripping the wheel too tight and forcing my breathing to slow so Lior wouldn't feel how scared I was."Where's Dad? What happened?" he asked from the back seat, his voice small."A man got upset and got scary." I kept my voice from shaking. "Daddy's driver kept everyone safe. Daddy's fine. He'll be home soon.”"Is the scary man gone?""Yes. He can't hurt anyone now.

Mason didn't let us go anywhere the first day.We spent it wrapped up in each other, no clothes, no interruptions. Food showed up, got eaten. Showers stopped being about getting clean, him whispering things in my ear that had me grinning ear to ear. Sleep, wake up, start all over again.I had zero complaints about the first day. By the second morning, though, I was working on him to let me go see Jane.Left to him, we'd have spent all three days exactly like that. I finally got a grudging yes out of him. He decided to use the opening to run an errand of his own, but not before dropping me off to see Jane first.She still worked at the hotel, though not as a cleaner anymore. Mason had seen to that. When I walked in, she was stuck in a department meeting, so I went around greeting my old coworkers instead.They were happy to see me, but I noticed the way whatever gossip had been going died the second I got close, all of them suddenly careful with their words. I even tried cracking a few

Just like I'd predicted, Mason refused to let me go out with Jane again that evening. Every trick I tried, nothing worked. Every promise I made got a firm no."We agreed only on seeing her in the morning," he said, like that settled it. "If you and Jane want a real hangout, do it on one of her free days. I'll even cover her traveling expenses to LA. But I'm not sharing you with anyone on this trip."I teased him. "This is giving very controlling boyfriend energy, you know that?”That made it worse. He took both our phones, switched them off, and hid them somewhere I never found. It was funny, honestly, how fiercely he held on to me. I didn't get the phone back until we were already boarding the jet home.I never told him about Nina. Ruben was back behind bars, sure, but that didn't answer how he'd known to find me at that ice cream shop. I didn't want to read too much into it. But it didn't feel like coincidence either.When we landed in LA, the driver took us straight to Mason's pare

My first instinct was to turn around and walk right back out. I knew nothing good was waiting for me.But Mason's voice looped in my head, the reminder that backing down only ever made things worse with his mother. So I decided to sit through it and hear exactly what she'd come to say.I pulled out the chair and sat. "If you wanted to see me, you knew exactly how to find me. You didn't need to stage all this."She ignored that, giving me the same condescending look she seemed to reserve just for me.“Why is it," she started, her tone clipped, "that you decided to latch onto someone else's man?”I was glad Mason had told me the full story of the contract already. If I'd walked in here without that context, she might have managed to shake me.I looked at her and reminded myself of Mason's advice to match her energy. Nothing I did tonight was going to make her approve of me."You've got that backwards," I corrected. "That's a question for Naomi. She's the one chasing a man who doesn't wa