Omniscient Narrator:

Things between Mason and Paige have not been in the best of ways, a sexual tension has been growing between them since they started this marriage. As much as they tried to pass it off as friendship, they both have feelings that don't correspond to a simple sibling relationship.

Paige realized this, since she found out she has been avoiding Mason, at least at home. She's afraid of doing something crazy being out of her five senses.

Mason is blinded in that he only sees her as a sister, when she is far from that.

Peyton has been staying close to Mason, has been harping on him about working at the company. That has been a topic of discussion between the two. Mason explains to her and has explained to her in many ways and several times that he can't do something like that, because it can create problems in his marriage.

This issue has him stressed enough, he doesn't understand where the Peyton who understood him without reproach, who supported him in everything, has l