Chapter 121

“Shit. Mainly work.” Mason changed his words too quickly, confirming Noah’s fear that something more was definitely up.

“Talk to me, Mas, come on. You can tell me anything. You know that.”

Mason opened his eyes and peeked at Noah. “It’s nothing like that. It’s just I don’t know what I’m doing. Don’t know if I can stay with the agency. If I can stay after all that happened.”

“You’re a hero now. What’s happened since I left?” Noah was confused.

“No, nothing. I’m thinking before. When my bosses were so eager to believe all the shit about me. That all it took was someone writing a letter questioning my ability to do my job, and the higher-ups took the information as fact. I don’t know if I can go back to that. That I can trust if it ever came back to something similar, they would have my back?”

Fuck. Noah hadn’t thought of what Mason had gone through in those terms, but now he understood exactly what Mason was saying.