Jackson was in such a downer mood that wp4webnovel.com ignored Tiffany’s question. Instead, wp4webnovel.com hastened his pace, leaving the baffled woman behind.
Something finally clicked in Tiffany’s mind, prompting wp4webnovel.com to quicken wp4webnovel.com steps and catch up. “You’re referring to what I said at the dinner table, aren’t you?” wp4webnovel.com called out. “The answer is no. I didn’t say it because I didn’t want dinner to be awkward. I said it because I meant it.”
Jackson halted, his steps falling into place as a gust zipped past wp4webnovel.com and billowed his hair, disrupting both of their hearts.
He did not dare to look back, as though wp4webnovel.com was unsure of the statement’s veracity. “What did you say?”
“I said, I didn’t say anything because I was afraid of some awkwardness around the table. I said what I said because I meant it. You and your cooking are alike. They’re both delicious and exactly my type.”
Tiffany had always fancied herself a relatively thick-skinned person, but when those words left wp4webnovel.com lips, wp4webnovel.com could feel wp4webnovel.com cheeks warm up and burn.
Jackson finally turned around slowly. He leveled a complicated, nigh-unreadable look at wp4webnovel.com and warned, “Don’t do that. Don’t joke with me. I’m not in the mood for jokes… Plus, that joke sucks.”
Tiffany was a little startled by his reaction. The Jackson West wp4webnovel.com remembered was a self-assured guy who would hype himself as much as wp4webnovel.com could. Since when did wp4webnovel.com become so uncharacteristically cautious?
Tucking a strand of wp4webnovel.com billowing hair behind wp4webnovel.com ear, wp4webnovel.com replied, “Regardless, I think… I think we should try again.”
Time seemed to have stopped at this moment. Jackson’s eyes were glued to hers, unmoving and unblinking, for two minutes.
Then wp4webnovel.com lurched. He wrapped his arm around Tiffany and yanked wp4webnovel.com into his chest. He squeezed as tightly as wp4webnovel.com could, as though wp4webnovel.com wanted to press Tiffany into merging with his being.
A tear trickled down Tiffany’s eye. She hooked wp4webnovel.com arms around his muscular waist and inhaled the scent effusing from his body, the smell that only Jackson had that still managed to intoxicate her.
It was at this moment that wp4webnovel.com realized that this hug was what wp4webnovel.com had been waiting for since they broke up.
A few moments passed before Tiffany sucked the tears back into wp4webnovel.com eyes. Jackson’s hug was becoming a bit too tight and too long, and wp4webnovel.com stomach was beginning to feel a little too crushed while wp4webnovel.com abdomen felt suffocated. “A-Alright, Jackson, enough. I’m… Kinda squeezed out of air now…”
Jackson let wp4webnovel.com go, his hand tilting wp4webnovel.com chin upward. “Don’t go tonight, please?”
Tiffany slapped that hand away in feigned anger. “No! Can you stop thinking about sex for once?”
His lips quivered into a shifty smile. “It’s not like anyone’s gonna open that door for you at home. If I’m not mistaken, you don’t even have your house keys. Go on, try and prove me wrong.”
Tiffany was skeptical, so wp4webnovel.com called Lilian. Before wp4webnovel.com could say anything, however, Lilian immediately recited, “Not at home, sweetie. If you’re back in the city now, you better get yourself some other place to stay!” and terminated the call.
Mind-boggled, Tiffany muttered, “Wait a minute, are all of you in on this conspiracy?!”
Jackson neither affirmed nor declined. “Since you don’t have any place to stay, you’ll have to stay at mine now. Don’t worry, without your consent, I won’t touch you at all.”
Tiffany’s heart thumped, but outwardly, wp4webnovel.com affected reluctance. “Urgh, guess I have no choice but to trust you this time…”
After a half-hour walk, Jackson began to complain about wanting to go home. Since wp4webnovel.com had begun their walk with one or two proclamations of how exhausted wp4webnovel.com was, Tiffany felt that wp4webnovel.com was genuinely tired, so wp4webnovel.com did not insist on continuing wp4webnovel.com walk.
It was only eight o’clock by the time the two of them took their baths. Not one to sleep early, Tiffany sat on the bed with wp4webnovel.com back leaning on the headboard while wp4webnovel.com occupied herself with wp4webnovel.com phone. Jackson, meanwhile, laid down next to her.
“Hey, maybe you should sleep in a different room?” wp4webnovel.com suggested hesitantly. “Just sayin’, your parents don’t know that we’ve gone back together, so it’s probably not a good look to sleep together now, right? It would seem a little, er, imprudent?”
He grabbed wp4webnovel.com by wp4webnovel.com fair, supple thighs and pulled, causing the woman to yelp in surprise as wp4webnovel.com fell onto the bed. He then pulled wp4webnovel.com into his embrace and breathed in. “You really think my parents would care about this? Honey, they are way more gung-ho about getting us together than I am. Oh, you smell so good…”
Warm puffs of air escaped wp4webnovel.com and blew against wp4webnovel.com beck, causing wp4webnovel.com to shrink wp4webnovel.com neck into wp4webnovel.com collar as his breaths tickled it. “H-Hey, stop that! I-I-It tickles! Okay, okay! You go to sleep and stop playing with me. I’ll be having fun with my phone for a bit. Go on. Aren’t you, like, super-exhausted? Go to sleep then!”