“Jason, I dumped you!” Haley snapped, feeling the last thread of her patience snap.
She looked up in the rearview mirror when he didn’t say anything only to find him frowning. Finally, he shook his head. “No, I think I would have remembered that.”
Her mouth dropped open.
“Anyway,” Jason continued as if he hadn’t just left her speechless with that announcement, “after our talk, I realized that you planned a week away for us and I really couldn’t agree more. A week away is exactly what we need to work through our problems.”
“Oh, my God, you’re insane,” she mumbled weakly.
Another careless shrug.
“So, where are we going anyway?” Jason asked, getting comfortable.
“We aren’t going anywhere. I’m leaving you at the next rest stop. You can hitchhike your way back home.”
“That’s really not going to work for me,” Jason said, giving her an incredibly sexy smile when she glared at him through the rearview mirror.
Her grip tightened on the steering wheel as she prayed for patience that she was pretty damn sure that she didn’t have. “Jason, it’s over. I’m sorry, but you have to accept it.”
“No, I don’t,” he said calmly, irritating her even more.
“Jason,” she said tightly.
“Haley,” he mocked in the same tone, making her lips twitch, damn him!
She sighed heavily. “Jason, you don’t trust me. I don’t think you-”
“I know that I really fucked up, Haley, but if you remember, I did tell you when we started that I was most likely going to mess this up,” he said, cutting her off.
“Yeah, you did, Jason, and last night you proved beyond a doubt that you aren’t capable of being in a relationship.”
“No, last night I proved that I’m a fucking idiot,” Jason said matter-of-factly.
She wasn’t going to argue with that since she’d come to the same conclusion after hearing what happened, but that didn’t change the fact that he didn’t trust her. As much as she loved him and god, did she love him, she couldn’t be with someone that didn’t trust her. When she was little, she remembered her mother meeting her father at the door with a smile that slowly turned bitter after the first lie until one day, she’d stopped bothering to act like she even cared. Her smiles turned forced, their interactions became painfully polite, and she’d realized just how much they’d hated each other.
She didn’t want that.
“Jason, we’re over,” she said more softly.
He snorted. “No, we’re not.”
“Yes, we are! Stop saying that!”
“No, we’re just fighting. You love me and you damn well know it.”
She opened her mouth to deny it, but she couldn’t. She did love him. More than anything on this earth, but he broke her heart last night and she wasn’t sure that she could trust him not to do it again.
When she didn’t say anything, he settled back in his seat and said, “I’m coming with you so you might as well accept it. The sooner we get this fight over with, the sooner we can move onto the next phase.”
“What phase?” she asked cautiously.
“Makeup sex,” Jason said, grinning hugely as he threw her a wink that had her biting back a groan, wondering why he had to make everything so damn difficult.
“What are we doing here?” Jason asked as he climbed out of the car, but not before Haley did. He wasn’t an idiot after all. She was still pissed at him and was probably still looking for a way to ditch his ass. In retrospect, he probably shouldn’t have mentioned makeup sex until after the fight.
The hour they’d spent at the rest stop had proved that. She’d tried everything she could to get him out of her car, but he’d refused to budge. Finally, when she was out of breath and exhausted from trying to drag him out of the car, it was a sad attempt, she gave up, slammed the door shut, drove off, and ignored him for the next two hours.
“I need groceries,” Haley mumbled with a sigh, throwing another glare in his direction. When her eyes shot between the Super Wal-Mart center and her car, he snatched the keys out of her hand.
