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“Actually, I go by Jason Greene these days”
The fact he now used his mother’s maiden name came as a surprise, but Kara supposed she shouldn’t find it too shocking, knowing the store had presumably contributed to her inability to track hi health A question teetered on her tongue, but she cla catch-up with Jason was akin to striking amove and it’d blow up in her face Best to stick to safe topics
His gaze implored her for an answer, but to what? She’d lost track of the strained conversation “What did you say?”
“How are you?”
He wanted to exchange pleasantries as though they’d parted on good terms? She didn’t have tietting dinner for her daughter before they went over her homework
“When you left Pleasant Valley, you swore you’d never return So what happened? What finally changed your mind?”
His expression hardened If he’d been expecting a elcome, he’d been sadly mistaken
He shrugged “Things change”
Well, enerally not for the better, but not in Jason’s case He hadn’t gained so ed scar on his face added to his sexiness
Kara’s gaze rose to ht his intense blue eyes were the same as she relint in theuy she’d dated for nearly four years Or had he been that way all along? Had those rose-colored glasses she’d been wearing back then obscured his real character? Had she ever truly known him at all?
Jason hitched his thumbs in his jeans pockets “I’m sorry about what happened between us I handled it poorly”
“You certainly did”
“If I could explain, I would, but I can’t—”
“Don’t” She held up a hand, stalling his too little, too late explanation “Nothing you say will change what happened”
Her pride refused to let on that his presence affected her, that even after all this ti her She reconciled herself to the fact that she was better off not knowing—not prying open that door to her past
Jason shifted his weight frouess it was tooto put the past behind us”
She lifted her chin, drawing on the strength she’d used to e this place in the recent absence of her boss, who also happened to be Jason’s father “I’ve moved on”
It’d taken tiotten over him and the way her life had unraveled after he’d duain Besides, she had enough on her plate already
After working her way up through the ranks, to now be dismissed fro She’d like to think she was needlessly worrying, but the ru the show—people with more education and experience
She went to step around Jason, but he snagged hold of her arize”
Even through her coat she could feel his war into her body She yanked at her arm, to no avail