Mason POV
“So, Carina, huh?” Benedict hands me a beer and sits beside me on the sofa. I invited him to watch the football game with me while Carina shopped with Eloise. The hours feel like years. Thinking about making Carina my wife in every sense, creates butterflies in my stomach.
“After talking to you and Dad, I thought about it long and hard,” I admit, sipping from my beer. “She’s the better choice.”
“The better choice?” Benedict raises his eyebrows. “Not the one you love, or even like, but the better choice?”
“Love and the mate-bond are both a blessing and a curse,” I shrug. “I thought I had the world when I found Erica. Just to learn that my contract wife knows me better and is more considerate than her. I had love and the mate-bond and it bit me in the ass. At least with Carina,
