“Hey!”
“Sorry, my little grasshopper, you’re not ditching me at Wally World,” Jason said, pocketing her keys and headed for the store, leaving her to follow him or stand there, fuming as she contemplated his murder.
Although Wal-Mart wouldn’t be his first choice, this solved one problem. He didn’t have any clothes since he’d been in a bit of a rush to hide in Haley’s car before she came back out. But this would work out rather nicely for him and since he could smell salt in the air, he knew exactly what to buy.
“I hate you,” Haley mumbled, storming past him to grab a carriage.
“You love and adore me,” Jason informed her as he deftly snagged her carriage away from her and headed towards the men’s department.
Along the way, he stopped at the women’s department when a little black bikini caught his eye, deciding that it would look great on Haley. He threw it in the carriage as well as the red one behind it. He wasn’t too worried when Haley didn’t follow him. He figured that she was somewhere in the store trying to calm down or looking for a baseball bat to beat his ass into submission.
Either was fine with him.
They had a whole week to work out their problems whether she wanted to or not. She was his, plain and simple and the sooner she realized that they were going to be together forever, the sooner he could correct the mistake he’d made last night and show her how good it could be between them.
After he grabbed swim trunks, enough clothes for the week, and a few toiletries, he headed for the grocery section. When he spotted Haley’s carriage, he couldn’t help but snort in disgust. Did she really think buying single servings was going to last them for a week? Clearly, their fight had addled her brain.
He paused near her carriage, ignoring her cute little glare and dumped all his things in her carriage.
“What the hell are you doing?” Haley demanded, trying to stop him.
“I need more room in my carriage for food,” Jason simply said as he headed towards the dairy section, hoping she wouldn’t just ditch his shit to get back at him. Then again, she should know that if she did, he would just take that as an invitation to walk around naked.
“Why do you need bubble bath?” she asked as she joined him in front of the dairy coolers.
He placed two gallons of milk in the carriage. “It’s for you,” Jason said in a tone that let her know that it should have been more than obvious who it was for.
His little grasshopper loved taking long hot bubble baths to relax and he really needed her to relax if he was going to convince her to forgive him and forget about this breakup nonsense.
“O-kay,” Haley said slowly, picking up a familiar black cardboard box. “And what about these? A twenty pack and magnum size no less, someone thinks highly of himself.”
Sighing, Jason reached over and snatched the box of condoms out of her hands. “Only one box? I thought I’d grabbed three,” he murmured, making a show of looking in her carriage for the other boxes. Finally, with a resigned sigh, he threw the box back. “Remind me to grab a few more boxes on the way out.”
With that, he headed to the cookie section, knowing that she was definitely going to follow this time.
“Why the hell would I remind you? We’re not going to need condoms,” she bit out softly with a glare.
Jason really couldn’t help but smile at that announcement. “Okay,” he said, grabbing the box of condoms and sticking it on the top shelf next to a stack of jelly cookies. “I was hoping you’d say that.”
The damage had already been done last night. Granted, if it had been any other woman, he would have already dragged her ass to the emergency room for the morning after pill, but with Haley, he felt oddly calm about the whole thing. Actually, he felt a little excited at the idea of Haley having his child.
Up until a few hours ago, he hadn’t given much thought to the consequences of last night. He’d been scared out of his fucking mind that he’d lost Haley for good to really think about it, but once he found himself squeezed into his hiding place, he had nothing but time to think about everything.
When he’d allowed himself to consider the possibility that she was pregnant, he may have freaked out just a little. Thankfully, Haley had been blasting the radio, so she probably hadn’t heard him hyperventilating. After he finally managed to calm down, he’d realized just how badly he wanted a child. Soon, he’d been picturing little girls with mischievous green eyes and pigtails asking him to play tea. Of course, they’d use real food. There would be none of that pretend food bullshit for his little girls.
By the time Haley stopped for breakfast, he’d been able to breathe a little easier. He’d already decided to ignore that breakup nonsense, knowing that Haley would realize that he was an idiot, so that they could get started on making their all-girl baseball team.
“You were?” Haley asked, looking adorably confused.
“Damn straight. Nothing should come between us when we’re making love,” he explained, loving the way her face went bright red as he tossed a box of cookies in the carriage.
“We’re not doing that again!” she hissed quietly.
Not making love again? Puhlease. If there was one thing that he knew about his little grasshopper, it was that she was just as insatiable in the bedroom as he was. He’d have her in his bed by the end of the day, guaranteed.
Chapter 23
“Can I have my keys back?” Haley asked, holding out her hand expectantly just as Jason placed the last bag in the backseat.
