Chapter 5
“Oh, darling, is this really one of the places where you spend your time? Please, tell me it isn’t so. It’s just so... kitschy.”
“Well, you’re the one who wanted to come. I’ll take you somewhere else, if you’re going to be a b***h about it. Or even better, you can take yourself somewhere else. I’m not your keeper, you know. Not anymore.”
“Don’t lie to yourself, Jackson, you were never my keeper. Not really. Not ever.”
Jackson felt the same old familiar agitation creeping up inside of him and willed himself to shake it off. One would think that after such a long amount of time had passed, he would know not to let Scarlett get to him this way. Although time and life had created vast amounts of distance between the two of them, as so often happened between people who were once c
