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She stared at him for a moment, part of her wishing it could be true. But who was she kidding? One, how could she trust that any interaction they had wasn’t going to turn into material? And two, she’d been fooling herself when she’d thought they’d been flirting. Jasper was a comedian. Funny quips were his business. Charm was his currency. She’d read the whole situation wrong. “We’re not friends, Jasper.”
He flinched, and this time she knew it had nothing to do with the pain in his side. “Not big on forgiveness, huh?”
She faced the road again. The sign for University Medical Center came into view, and she shook her head, feeling bone-deep tired. “Look, I was rude to you that first day. You were a jerk onstage. We’re even. Let’s just call a truce and be polite to each other at work.”
“But—”
She pulled up to the emergency room entrance. “Go see a doctor, Jasper. Your organs could explode.”
One of the hospital staff stepped up to the car, and Hollyn unlocked the doors.
Jasper gave her one last injured look and then sighed. “Thanks for the ride, Hollyn.”
“Hope you feel better.”
A stocky guy in scrubs helped Jasper out of the car and guided him to an awaiting wheelchair. Jasper looked back once before the guy wheeled him through the open doors. Hollyn sat there for a minute, trying to get her breathing back to normal. She stared at the closed doors, feeling a little guilty for just dumping him at the hospital without going in, but what was she supposed to do? They weren’t friends. If it was something serious, they’d call his family or friends to be there with him. She drummed her fingers on the steering wheel. She was not going in after him.
Nope. She was not going to do it. This weird night ended here.
She put her car in gear. She needed to get home, get to bed, and forget this night ever happened. But right as she pulled out, something thumped onto the passenger floorboard. She veered the car closer to the curb so she could stop and clicked on the interior light. Sitting on the floor of the passenger side was a silver rectangle—Jasper’s phone.
She closed her eyes.Come on, Universe, give me a freaking break here.With a groan, she turned the wheel and headed for the parking garage.
She was never going to escape Jasper Deares.
