Chapter Twenty - One
Ava POV
Mark started the car and pulled out of the parking lot. I turned sideways and began staring outside of the window like I always do.
All of a sudden, I heard a throat clear.
“Ava.” Jasper called me.
I turned to the other side, and looked at him. He had put his phone down and now had his whole attention to me.
“About what happened earlier, I did not mean that as an insult.” He said and rubbed his neck. He glanced in the rear-view mirror before turning back to me. Probably trying to see if Mark was listening to our conversation or not.
“I liked your cooked food. It is just that I don’t like seeing guest work in my house.” He told me. His sentence gave me mixed feelings. He liked my food but he saw me as a guest?
I was a guest. I reminded myself. I need
