Page 31 of Touch Me (Complete Collection)

“God, no! He said he didn’t want to have anything to do with me, and he was done playing…he said he had…he said he’d found the one.”

Tears burned Jenny’s eyelids, and she strode forward, ferociously wrapping her arms around Celia. Celia gasped.

“Thank you, Celia.”

**

Jenny’s cellphone rang for the tenth time since that morning, and she glanced at it, knowing it would be Cooper. Again.

It was Dexter.

So Cooper has enlisted assistance.

“Jenny! Where are you?” Dexter yelled urgently, breathless, as if he had been running.

“I'm at my place.”

“Your place? What are you doing? Cooper has been calling like a madman. Why are you moving out of his apartment?”

“I can’t explain to you, Dex.” She trapped her phone between her ear and shoulder, pulling out clothes from the suitcase and hanging them in her new closet.

“Why not? He’s getting on a flight tonight. Can you just call him and explain why you’re moving out? He’s losing his mind.”

“Dexter…I’ll talk to him when he gets here, alright? I can’t do the phone thing anymore. He gets pissed and yells, and I want to smack him through the phone. This phone is the worst thing ever invented…it’s a curse to long distance relationships.”

“You're making no sense.”

“See? It’s this damn phone! I can never get my point across.”

Dexter sighed. “Where have you moved?”

Jenny bit her lip and gave him the address, and he hung up, telling her he’d call back once he talked to Cooper.

Jenny felt bad for using a mediator to talk to Cooper. But she had made it clear; she was too emotionally underdeveloped to deal with the drama of a serious relationship. So, she bailed.

**

A sharp knock on the front door, along with the constant ringing doorbell awoke her. She glanced at the clock, wondering if Cooper had come back and decided to give her a visit. A glimpse through the peephole and her heart began beating frantically.

She opened the door and Cooper stood fuming outside, with a harassed looking security guard behind him.

“Could you have at least left my name on the expected visitors’ list?” he raged.

Jenny shook her head to clear it. “Come in,” she finally managed after a long pregnant pause.

Cooper stomped in, turning to face her. “What happened, Jenny?”

“Nothing happened.”

He pursed his lips. “Then why are you here? And not back at our apartment?”

“I needed…” She tried desperately to remember all the things she had rehearsed in her head. “I need some space. I need to be independent.”

He nodded. “I can give you space.”

“I got tired of all the…drama.”

“What drama, Jenny? What happened with Jason…I've let it go, you know that.”

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