“Rachel, what are you doing?” Jason yelped.
Emily rushed to pull him up, glaring at me.
“Rachel, are you insane?”
I put away the spray and shrugged carelessly.
“It’s mine. Just disinfecting. Who told him to touch dirty trash he shouldn’t touch?”
Emily froze, her face turning pale.
I looked at Jason with disgust.
“Are you a trash can? Letting any kind of garbage rub against you—so disgusting!”
Emily recovered, yanking Jason’s arm.
“Your wife really doesn’t know how to have fun, huh?”
My face turned cold.
“You know he’s married, yet you have no boundaries. That’s not playing around—that’s trying to be a home-wrecker!”
“What are you saying?” Jason slammed the table.
Since Emily had returned from abroad, this was the 99th time Jason had raised his voice at me.
People at nearby tables turned to look. I had embarrassed his “female brother.”
So he ordered me:
“Emily and I aren’t what you think. Apologize, now!”
Again, I’m the one who has to apologize!
I don’t even know what I did wrong!
I bit down hard and spat out two words: “In your dreams!”
Then I grabbed my purse and stormed off.
Jason grabbed my wrist.
“Why are you so petty?”
“No wonder you don’t have a single close friend!”
“With your small-minded personality, no one wants to be around you!”
I froze.
It was true I didn’t have many friends—but wasn’t that because I had insisted on moving far away with him?
He knew that, yet he still threw it in my face!
Fury rose inside me. I struggled hard, trying to shake off his grip.
My bag slipped and accidentally struck his face. Blood immediately poured from his nose.
Emily grabbed tissues from the table, pressing them to his nose as she fussed over him:
“Forget it, you should just take Rachel home before she snaps again and bites someone!”
“Rachel, honestly, men need their pride out in public. How could you hit him?”
“Good boy, hurry and apologize to Rachel. Let’s just drop it.”
I knew Jason’s temper well.
Even when we fought to the point of nearly breaking up, he never said the words “I’m sorry.”
I didn’t expect an apology.
But when Emily spoke, Jason hesitated only two seconds before muttering reluctantly:
“Sorry, okay?”
I froze, feeling something inside me shatter.
Jason, who always claimed to be a straight shooter, had just treated Emily’s words as law.
I sucked in a sharp breath, suddenly unwilling to say another word, and walked away.
When I got home, Jason arrived soon after.