Chapter 19
Jason walked into his house. It was pretty quiet. However, before he could go and locate Vicky and Angel, Willa appeared. “Mr. Rutherford you had a visitor today”. Jason had a one track mind and right now that was getting to Vicky and Angel everything else was a distraction. “Where’s Vicky and Angel?” he asked as if Willa hadn’t said anything. “I believe they are in the room we made up for Angel sir”. Great, Vicky was trying to get her used to her new room. Willa cleared her throat loudly to get Jason’s attention. She did it in that pay attention to me way she had since he was a little boy. He finally focused on her and realized something was off. “Ms. Reed stopped by to pick up some of her things from ‘the bedroom’”. Jason lifted an eyebrow “She doesn’t have anything in ‘the bedroom’ or anywhere else in this house. We packed all of her things and shipped them to her weeks ago”. “Be that as it may sir, I’m sure it was something Ms. Vicky would not have wanted to know”. Understanding finally registered. Damn and double damn. He thanked Willa and took the stairs two at a time. When he made it to Angel’s room he knocked on the door. There was no answer. This was the second time Vicky had him knocking on doors for access to her without getting any response and it was pretty frustrating. Not to mention it was his house. He shouldn’t have to knock on the door anyway. He knocked one last time a little firmer before announcing he was coming inside. Angel looked up at him and smiled. She then ran towards him with her arms stretched wide for a hug. He picked her up, hugged and kissed her but his eyes never left Vicky’s. “Hi. What are you two doing in here?” Vicky shrugged “This is a beautiful room you had made up for Angel why wouldn’t we want to come in here?” Jason put Angel down and she went running over to play with all the cool toys Jason had bought for her. Once Angel was out of earshot Vicky hissed at him trying desperately not to raise her voice so Angel would not overhear them “How could you bring me here to sleep in the same bed that you shared with your girlfriend or should I say your ex-fiance?” Jason ran his hands through his hair and in an equally angry whisper “What are you talking about? I’ve never had a fiancé. It’s true Bridget and I dated but she was never my fiancé. Look, at the time we met on the elevators I was just trying to figure out my life. My relationship with Bridget was technically over. Everything between us happened very fast. I wasn’t planning on falling in love with you, it just happened.” “Really?….you didn’t plan on falling in love with me? Well, it’s nice to know that you can fall in and out of love so easily, Jason. So, today you love me. What about tomorrow? I won’t have you playing with not just my feelings but Angel’s too. I refuse to be a rebound.” Jason had left the house for all of two hours and in that span of that time all hell had broken loose. “What the hell are you talking about? Rebound? Fiancé? You’re not a rebound and I just said I’ve never had a fiancé. I’m not going to feel guilty because I had a life when I met you. I wasn’t celibate. But, I also wasn’t seeing Bridget while I was seeing you. I broke it off with her for good the night I flew back into town after we met”. Vicky had never seen Jason so angry “What the hell is this anyway? You didn’t even give me a chance to explain. It’s like you are expecting me to mess up. Every five minutes you’re angry at me.” Vicky yelled at him right back “Maybe that’s because it seems like every five minutes you’ve lied to me about SOMETHING!” Angel stopped playing and looked over at them both. She had this innocent ‘what’s wrong’ look on her face. Jason just stared at Vicky and shook his head “So, will I have to pay for that the rest of my life for not telling you who I really was? So now you’ll automatically assume the worst? You just won’t trust anything that I’ve got to
