Chapter 141: Please stand by

Chapter 141: Please stand by

It was a long walk to Rebecca's room. All kinds of Nassau citizens either stared or wanted to talk or at least needed Mason to smile or nod or give them something.

Damnit people, he thought, you say you don't want Blake, then expect me to act exactly like Blake.

He did his best to smile, but walked past all of them until he got to his 'wing' of the hall, and locked the door behind him.

"Becky?" He found her in the bedroom, apparently asleep in the bed and half covered in a blanket, her long hair spread on the pillows. She looked so cute and content he just stood there a moment watching her, intending to turn around and let her sleep. But she blinked awake and rubbed at her big green eyes.

"Mason? Sorry. I've been going with the hunters and didn't sleep much." She sat up, revealing a lacy, practically see-through nightgown Mason could only describe as lingerie. Becky noticed Mason's eyes and covered herself with the blanket before blushing red. "I...was plannin’ on...seducing you. I guess."

Mason grinned and sat on the bed beside her. "It would have worked." He pushed some hair out of her face and smiled. "But it's not a competition, you know. You don't have to do anything. You make me happy. That's it. I'm not the deepest creature in the world."

Rebecca looked down. "I know. It's just..." she took a breath. “I don’t wanna give up anything.”

Mason kissed Becky’s temple and chuckled. “If you’re worried I won’t want you more than you can tolerate, you can stop right now.”

Becky still didn’t warm or look at him and he wasn’t quite sure what to do. She took a breath.

“I’m not worried about that. It’s just...we’re still so...new, and you’re the first man I’ve...and...oh gosh we’re in the apocalypse and I’m worried about romance. I’m being silly.”

She tried to flop back down on the bed but Mason held her up. “No you’re not. I get it now.”

“You do?” She barely met his eyes, and he smiled.

“You don’t want to miss out on any waterfalls.”

She finally looked at him now and nodded.

"This still feels so new. I want to be with you all the time,” she practically whined.

She smiled and kissed him again, and he felt some tension draining away as he lost himself in the feel and scent and warmth of her, for a tiny moment happy Blake was too far away to interfere at the exact wrong...

[Settlement modification in progress. Please stand by.]

Rebecca squinted in confusion, then shrieked and grabbed Mason in something of a panic as the ground started to shake.

"What in the hell? Is it an earthquake?"

"You must have slept through the warning. Don't move." Then he pulled Becky back into his arms and just enjoyed the feel and smell of her. But his time was up, he realized. He needed to get out there and see what the hell had just happened to the settlement at least when everyone else did.

“You’re going to like this,” he said to the still scantily clad and increasingly aroused Becky.

She sighed, and looked at the door.

“We’ve gotta go, don’t we?”

He put his forehead to hers. “Rain check?”

“Rain check. Thanks for humoring me,” she said, her eyes still vulnerable. Mason stood and lifted her up until her legs wrapped around his waist.

“I feel the same as you, Becky, there’s just never enough damn time. But we’ll make it, OK? We’ll beat everything this stupid robot throws at us. Then we’ll walk from one side of the world to the other because we can, and visit every waterfall.”

She smiled with a little wetness in her eyes and kissed him.

“Sounds good to me.”

“Good.” He gave her ass a smack then set her down with a grin. “Now throw some clothes on, and let's go explore a giant underground nature God temple. Or whatever the hell it is.”

She looked at him like he was a little crazy. But then, he was getting used to people doing that.