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And in typical Jack fashion he proceeds to feed me a full-on Aussie-filled sentence that makes as much sense as putting my non-existent groceries in a boot.
“No groceries, either,” I say, feeling suddenly uncomfortable. I have to explain to him why I went to the grocery store and returned empty-handed.
“I thought you said you were going grocery shopping?” he asks, confused.
“I was but…” I pause trying to figure out how to word this without making Jack jealous or making him think I’m still hung up on Nate. That fucker really knows how to show up at the worst possible times.
Jack’s eyebrows scrunch together as he waits for me to finish my sentence, knowing there’s more to this conversation.
“I ran into Nate at the store,” I finally admit and Jack’s face relaxes.
“So where are the groceries?”
“I left them at the store,” I confess, looking down at my feet.
“You mean to tell me that fuckwit made you so uncomfortable that you left your groceries at the store?”
“Yeah, and I knocked over a display of potato chips,” I say, my face growing warm at my admission of stupidity.
“Aw, Lu, come here,” Jack says, pulling me into his arms and pressing a kiss to the top of my head. “I know you said he’ll disappear, but I’m pissed he’s come round again.”
“He will go away. He’s harmless and I need to grow up.”
“Give me a list and I’ll go to the store for you,” Jack says firmly.
“Huh?” I say, appalled at his offer. It’s probably the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.
“Write me a list of what you need and I’ll go,” he repeats, his hands on his hips as if he’s waiting for me to drop everything and make the list.
So I head into the house and begin making the list. Jack waits patiently as I think of the things I need and also tells me to add a few things he wants to it.
His list is far funnier than mine, adding all the American things he loved as a kid, which basically amounts to nothing but crappy junk food.
“Jack, that’s nothing but crap,” I admonish, patting his ridiculously muscular and flat stomach through his shirt.
“This coming from the girl who ate her weight in Tim Tams and managed to make a sex deal based off of them?”
“Touché.”
I hand Jack the list, the keys to my car and attempt to give him my credit card, but he shoves it back into my hand, saying it’s on him.
I try to argue but it’s fruitless because he turns his back on me and walks out to the car as if I’m not even talking.
“You’re a stubborn ass!” I yell from the porch.
“But you love it!” he yells back.
And fuck me if I don’t, as I hear my mother’s words echoed back to me.
The person you’re with should make your life easier.
My life has never been easier than it is with Jack in it.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Jack
By the time I head back to the vineyard, it’s quiet, the place now closed and all the guests long gone. I’d spent an hour or so strolling around the supermarket, half hoping to run into that fuckwit Nate just so I could tell him to piss off out of Lu’s life, for good this time. Unfortunately, he wasn’t there, so after I’d finished up, I’d headed back toSomerville’s.
