I Want You Back by Meminger
Chapter 22

Chapter 0022

To my chagrin, my door was opened, and Jason walked in without even being invited. “I’m sorry I’m late, I had problems with traffic. I even had to come here by helicopter,” he said quite excitedly, and I frowned.

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“I was just missing this one,” I muttered to myself, quite disgusted.

“What? Do you have a headache?” He asked after noticing me more closely. “It’s a migraine, right? Have you been drinking, by any chance?

He was getting closer.

“It’s none of your business, but yes. I had wine last night,” I replied, turning my gaze to the computer. Jason got me a glass of water and approached me, handing me the water and a medicine pack.

“I know what it’s like, take this medicine, and it will help you. I also always get sick with migraines,” he said, offering the medicine, and I looked at him suspiciously before taking it. “I remember you w

p pretty weak at drinking before, has that changed now?” He as

not like he was accusing me of anything.

“It’s been five years, Jason. Things wouldn’t be the same as be rereplied rudely, in fact, I still couldn’t drink that often, but Jason

need to know that. He laughed.

So you want to talk about what’s changed in the five years we’ve been apart?” He asked and sat on my desk looking at me.

Ljust wish I could work in silence,” I quipped with my eyes on the

computer screen.

“Walell, diquess things stay the same for me,” he said, successfully igignoring me. “I still go to my parents’ house on the first weekend of thee month, mom still makes me that lemon pie.” He was talking with

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about things that were so familiar to me, things that were part of my daily life when I was married to him. “Remember the dog that we saved and took off the street? It was actually at your insistence, boht? You were always kind and worried about the lives of animals asthants like that. But unfortunately, the dog died because he had a

threns, illness.”

bernommeret the dog, of course, I did I bit my lip to try man to react.|| the Weshat Jason was trying to do, he was trying to make ne

erinmber the past, but I wasn’t going to fail for it.

en Jannes James has resigned,” he continued. “He said he needed a

vih hes vian gis dauginter in another state. I hired a new gardener, bate st already already know that the mansion’s gardens were never the hen James wames went. Oh, and I stopped going to the golf club. e, looked accked at him.

Jason always ways loved golf, he always went every Monday on. He laughed aloedightly, but also full of expressions.

edible as it may seamay seem, golf started to get boring, I didn’t in it so I decided fooded to give up.” He shrugged.

neone passionate about@abour golf, would say this is quite at “I said, trying to appear distear disinterested, but in reality, I was

to hear that news. news.

ren’t there, Laura.” Laura.”

o you mean?” Was he going tarotan aytart saying that I made a

in golf since he never played witiyer with me? I mean, i had no role in

ay not have participated in the gamne bamos, but hefore you left, you waited for me with my coat and asked ins ce ne how the match had le said, looking melancholy now. Now I was in these little things

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appreciate, but that I missed so much. Laura, you have no idea how

much I missed you.”

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