Mason was on my mind. He’d gotten back in town late the night before and called on the way back from the airport. He wanted to come over. But I could hear the exhaustion in his voice, and I was concerned about the yarn show starting the next day. It was not the time for a big reunion. “You’re not going to change your mind on me, are you?” he teased before I heard him yawn. I had been a bit elusive in the past, and I could see his concern. “And you’re not going to take off because it was really just all about the chase, are you?” I countered. I sounded like I was joking, but there was still a bit of concern in the back of my mind. I was facing the big 5-0 and had been around long enough to know how relationships went. Nothing made someone seem more desirable than when they were out of reach. But if they suddenly turned around and waited with open arms, it was a whole other story. “If it was just about the chase, I would have given up a long time ago.
