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“Areyou going to tell me what is going on?” Jonah asked an hour later.
They were back at his place and he’d stopped and picked up a pizza on the way. Megan had been short with him at the gym, but she’d said she was working something out. Now he just had to get her to open up to him so he could figure it out.
“Yep,” she said, opening the pizza box and grabbing a slice and slapping it on her plate. “Tell me about Molly?”
“What?” he asked.
“You know. Your ex. Girlfriend and agent. Tell me about her.”
“She’s an ex,” he said. “How did you find out about her?”
“Patricia brought it up today when I got to the gym. She started out saying how you told everyone what good care I’d taken of you and then the next thing I know I’m being compared.”
“There is no comparison,” he said shortly.
“Don’t walk away from me,” she said, moving to stand in front of him.
“I wasn’t going to.”
“You turned to go down the hall. That’s called walking away.”
“I was going to change,” he said.
He went into his room, but she was on his heels. “Why didn’t you tell me about her?”
“What is there to say?”
“Jonah! You got all bent out of shape over thinking I kept some tiny little secret about the Fierces from you making you doubt my love for you and yet here you are not telling your parents you still have issues from your head injury.”
“I don’t,” he said. “Lots of people get migraines that didn’t have the injury I did.”
“That’s right,” she said. “They do. Yet you are trying to keep that information from them. Then last week when you had your accident, you didn’t want them to know you had vertigo again for two days. Why? You’re fine now.”
He pulled a shirt out of his drawer, then the one he had on he yanked off in jerky motions and put the fresh one on and turned to her. “I am,” he said. “There was no reason to worry them.”
“People who love you are always going to worry,” she said. “Or is that the problem? That is why you doubted my love for you? Because you were dating Molly and she talked you into fighting and when you said you were done she walked away?”
He snarled. “Yes! I was an idiot. I was weak. I thought we had a lot in common and we got along well. She made me feel good and pumped me up. My ego loved it.”
“We all have egos,” she said. “Mine takes a hit all the time when I’m with my family.”
“It’s not the same and you know it,” he said.
“It is!” she yelled. “You just see it differently. This person didn’t love you. She used you. Again, you’ve used those words before. You don’t like games. You don’t want to be played, but yet you never explained it.”
“I didn’t need to,” he said, walking away from her.
She rushed up and grabbed his arm. “No, you’re not. Stop moving. I’m not giving you time to pull this shit again. I walked out last time we were fighting and it was wrong of me. You said you needed time and I gave it to you. I’m not doing it again. I can see that sometimes you don’t have the chance to make it right with someone.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means you got in that accident still thinking I didn’t love you when I did. You were mad at me and if something happened to you and I never got to see you again to let you know it wasn’t true I couldn’t live with myself.”
She went from anger to tears in a heartbeat. She rarely got upset to the point she cried and it was destroying him.
“Don’t cry,” he said. “I’m fine.”
