Page 79 of Heartbreaker

Evie - You would think getting my heart broken would be horrible, and getting it done by someone else and not your boyfriend would be worse, but not with Jackson. The words that left his mouth were so soft and sweet. He told me that I was worth more than my ex, a man that was too scared to even break up with me. Jackson made me smile, he made me understand that I can do better.

Kate - The only thing I want to say to Jackson is, thank you for making me believe I’m worth more.

Julie - The heartbreaker is his name, but he is so much more, he might have broken my heart, but Jackson fixed it just as quick.

As I scroll down more and more, they are only good things about him, not one girl has said Jackson hurt them, or made them cry. Some even said they sometimes call Jackson just to let him know how they are doing. Maybe I got this all wrong.

Turning the computer off, I make my way to Milton’s, but then I’m fighting myself about going. Should I give him time? But I want to see him too.

I let my feet to the talking for me this time and go where they take me. I mean it to me seems forever, thirty minutes walking around in a circle, but then I’m walking into the Milton, and head straight to the bar. I see him sitting at the table with—I take a better look—Jade. That’s his ex. Why is he here with his ex? I move in closer hoping that I can hear what they are talking about, and all I can think about was if he was using me to get back with her?

I don’t hear everything Jade says, but I hear the last part. “We can be together now.”

I hear Jackson laughing, and it’s not a laugh to say his agreeing to it by far, it’s more of a laugh that shouts, I don’t think so.

“No fucking way, I wouldn’t touch you with someone else’s dick let alone my own. I feel sorry for you, Jade. You have no real friends, and you will never know love like I have with Ashley. She is everything you are not. Sweet, kind, she is so fucking beautiful on the inside and out and if I am lucky enough to win her love I’ll spend the rest of my life making sure she knows how much I love and cherish her.” He stands, and I quickly move behind the wall. “I feel sorry for you.” I hear him tell her.

“So why did you call me here? Just for revenge?” I hear Jade and her tone is a little bitchier this time.

“No, Jade. I wanted answers and I have a message from Eddie. He doesn’t want to be with you anymore. He is moving all your clothes back to your parents.”

Oh, wow I didn’t see that coming, I peek around the wall, and by the looks of it, neither did she. I see Jackson about to turn around, and I make that my cue to leave. I want Jackson to talk to me, I do, but after everything I’ve seen and heard I want him to come to me when he is ready.

Walking out of the building, I hear Jackson shouting my name, but I pretend I can’t hear him. I mean what the hell should I say to him? I got Lindy to tell me where you were, so I can spy on you, now that makes me sound like a freak.

“Tinkerbell,” Jackson shouts and just hearing him call me that, I stop. I stop in the middle of the busy crowd. I look at him just staring at me. “You changed your hair.” He smiles, I want him to kiss me, I’ve missed him kissing me. “I like it.”

“Thanks, I was just...I wanted to see you, then I saw Jade…”

“That’s not what you think…”

“I know, I heard I little of it, and Lindy showed me a few things.” I stop for a moment and look around.

“Can we go back to my place, so we can talk?” Jackson takes my hand in his, his thumb rubbing my wrist, and he looks down and sees my new tattoo, it’s the symbol for strength “Let’s talk.”

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We finally get to Jackson’s house, we didn’t really talk on the way here. “Would you like anything to drink?”

“No, thank you,” I tell him as I put my bag on the floor and sit on the couch. I watch him walking to the kitchen and I wait, I’m so nervous at the moment.

Jackson sits next to me. “I’m sorry, I know I should have told you about my job.” Jackson stops and takes a sip of his water. “When we first got together I thought we were so different it would never last, but the more time we spent together, the more I liked you, then one day I woke up next to you and I had fallen in love with you. I knew if I told you what I did, you would walk away from us and I just couldn’t let that happen.”

Jackson moves closer to me and I just stare at him. “Why did you walk away at the hospital? The time I needed you, you weren’t there for me.” The reason I’m not talking about his job at the moment is because he walked away when I needed him the most and he knew I wanted him to be there.

“I was scared that I wasn’t good enough for you.”

I not my head, as I think about what he just said. He thinks he’s not good enough for me. “And what happens tomorrow? What if you get scared again?”

“This week away from you has been the longest week of my life. I’ve hated every second of it without you in it, and that scares me a lot more. I know that I love you and I want to be with you, and if I’m lucky to have a second chance with you, I promise, that I’ll never walk away from you again.”

I look at his face, his eyes are pleading me, begging me to give him a chance. I already know that I’m going to work this out with Jackson, I don’t want to walk away from him.

“Your work, I don’t like that you kept that a secret from me, I mean it’s your job.”

“Tinkerbell I ….”

“Jackson, I saw the comments girls left on the site.” I stop him he's going to keep trying to get me to see things his way, but he doesn’t have to, With what I read and with what I heard him say to Jade, there isn’t a part of me that thinks this is the worst job in the world. He’s making sure that the girls know that they are still special, and a stupid boyfriend shouldn’t make you feel like crap.