amusement.
Still glaring off at nothing, she shrugged and said, “Maybe.”
“ That’s too bad,” he said, chuckling when she turned to glare at him.
“ Bastard,” she muttered, and with a huff, pointedly looking away once again.
“ Are you planning on ignoring me the whole time?”
“ Yes.”
“ Really?”
“ Yes!”
“ And why is that?” he asked, reaching over and turned on the satellite radio to Haley’s favorite stations, The Highway. Although she enjoyed pretty much every genre of music with a few exceptions, she seemed to really enjoy modern country music. Before they’d started dating, he would have cringed from just hearing the words, country music, but that had quickly changed after the first time she’d commandeered his radio.
“ Because I hate you,” she said with a haughty little sniff that had him smiling.
So. Fucking. Cute.
He reached over and placed his hand on her thigh, loving the way that she shifted closer even as she continued to mope. As he drove down the busy highway he contemplated stopping for food to prolong the torture, but after a minute he decided against it. He couldn’t wait to see her face when she realized where he was taking her for their honeymoon.
It was going to be perfect, absolutely fucking perfect, he thought, knowing without a doubt that he was about to prove his family’s bullshit theory on honeymoons was just that, bullshit.
Chapter 5
“ Let me go!”
“ No,” Jason said, chuckling while he kept his arm wrapped tightly around her waist as she struggled to free herself.
“ Please!” she begged, trying to shove his hands away so that she could make a run for it, but the large bastard that was supposed to love and adore her refused to let her go.
“ After we check in,” he promised with a chuckle as he leaned down and kissed the top of her head.
With an over-the-top sigh, because she knew fighting him right now would be pointless, mostly because he’d stolen her wallet to keep her from running off, she gave up. “Fine,” she said with another heavy sigh as she walked back to the front desk where the attractive brunette who’d been eying Jason since they’d walked in was waiting to finish checking them in.
“ I’m sorry about that,” Jason said with the same charming smile that he usually used on her to get her to make him pancakes late at night when all she wanted to do was curl up on the couch with him and watch mindless reality television.
“ It’s no problem,” the brunette said, giving him a flirtatious smile as she typed away on her keyboard. “What was the name on the reservation?”
“ Bradford,” Jason said, pulling out his wallet.
“ Thank you,” the brunette murmured with an appreciative smile as she accepted Jason’s driver’s license.
“ You’re welcome,” Jason said absently as he reached back and returned his wallet to his back pocket just as Haley decided to try her hand at pickpocketing.
Glancing around the large lobby to make sure that no one was watching, she shifted closer to Jason. When he smiled down at her, she returned the smile, making sure to look appropriately innocent. His smile turned into a slight frown as his eyes narrowed suspiciously on her.
“ What’s-”
“ Mr. Bradford, I have the king suite with whirlpool tub with the park view ready for you,” the brunette said with another smile that managed to drag Jason’s attention away from her attempts at thievery.
“ No, I’m sorry. There seems to be a mistake. I reserved a room with a queen bed,” he explained as Haley shifted a little bit closer to him.
“ Let me see what I can find out,” the brunette said, typing once again as Haley glanced around the lobby one more time to make sure that no one was watching. After one last glance to find Jason frowning at the desk clerk, she shifted closer and-
“ Please tell me that you’re not seriously trying to pick my pocket,” Jason said, sighing heavily as he reached back and