Chapter 12

“No. Guy from my team recently had his yard redone. Said after a lot of shopping around this nursery had the best bang for your buck. Saved me time tracking the trees down.”

“Cool.”

And that was it—back to silence. His words were not quite the conversation starter Noah had hoped for. His eyes strayed back to gazing out the window. He counted the cars with New York license plates as they passed. When he counted up to forty, he got upset. Why is getting us to talk all on me? Mason doesn’t seem to be bothered. He had on the same smile he wore all morning. They passed two more cars. Hell noThis trip is too long to be playing with license plates

Needing to talk, Noah decided on something that had been bothering him, but he couldn’t figure out why. “The woman in the pictures in your hallway—is she your girlfriend?”

Mason’s reaction stunned Noah. He wasn’t sure what he expected, but it definitely wasn’t Mason laughing hysterically.