Derek laughed out loud. "Mason begged me the same way back then."

Waterfield asked, "And how did you help him?"

Given how close Sophia and Aurora were, and how much Derek listened to his wife, Mason begging him probably wouldn't have done any good.

"I didn't."

Waterfield felt like he had never been this speechless in a single day.

He knew it.

He shouldn't have even bothered asking Mason.

"You’re just ...