A Jealous Man

"I told you to leave," Alex asked grumpily as she sat on the passenger seat. 

"And it's a good thing I stayed," But Mason's mood was worse than Alex's. He was driving his car back home after the successful effort of stopping himself from beating the life out of Andre Hawthorne. If Alex did not care a little too much about Andre, Mason knew that he would have done so. "Why is he holding you too close, by the way?" Mason could not erase the picture out of his head and it was making his blood boil.