Even though I said the words, even though I tried to pretend I didn’t care if Aiden chose to talk to Elisa on the phone while he was with me, I truly did care. A lot more than I wanted to.
I hated that I felt relieved when instead of answering her call, through the reflection in the window, I watched as he put his phone on mute and placed it on the seat between us, face down. I hated that it still mattered to me whether he gave her priority when he had just promised to try to work on our relationship.
“Let’s get you home, you must be tired.” He said instead. “You’ll need to give Martin the address.”
I nodded and turned to give Martin the directions so he could enter it into the navigation system. Done with that, I decided to feign sleep once more, hunger forgotten as my stomach was now
