Chapter 4
Jake’s intense blue orbs darted around the restaurant for a moment, then penetrated my gaze. “How have you been?”
Oh sure. You come in here and light the place on fire and now you want to have a casual conversation. I squared my shoulders and tried to paste a smile to my face. “Things have been amazing.”
He tapped his fingers on the glass table and adopted a confrontational stance. “Bullshit.”
A rapid-fire heartbeat grew loud in my eardrum. Okay, my statement wasn’t entirely accurate, but he didn’t need to know that. “Who are you to say how I feel?”
He gave me a hard glare. “Someone needs to keep track of it.”
A laugh slipped from my mouth before I tore it away. He had some nerve showing up on a whim and ordering me around, but it was impossible to hide from him. Jake Suthe
