you senseless with her cane,” the desk clerk read aloud with a pleasant smile that had Jason sighing in defeat.
“ Fine,” he said, not sounding particularly happy about it.
“ There’s also a note here about your luggage,” she added, making them both frown.
“ We don’t have any luggage,” Jason pointed out as he returned his credit card to his wallet.
“ Your luggage was delivered to your room this morning compliments of Mrs. Blaine. I believe she had her assistant pack your bags and had them delivered shorty after your grandmother changed your reservations,” the clerk explained, placing two keycards on the counter in front of them. “Is there anything else that I can help you with?”
“ No, we’re fine,” Jason said, looking a little lost as he picked up the keycards and shoved them in his pocket.
“ Good,” Haley said with a firm nod as she gestured towards the front door. “Now we can move onto more important matters.”
With that, she moved to take a step towards the front door only to find herself scooped up in Jason’s arms.
“ Oh, come on!” she said, trying to get out of his arms, but the big bastard refused to let her go.
“ We’re going upstairs,” he stated calmly as he carried her across the foyer to the elevators.
“ We can go upstairs later,” she pointed out as she continued to struggle to get free.
“ No, we’re doing this right,” he said firmly as he pressed the call button for the seventh floor.
“ Going there is the right thing to do!” she explained, wondering why he was fighting her on this.
“ No.”
“ But-”
“ No!”
“ But, they’re going to close in a few hours!” she desperately pointed out as she tried to crawl over his shoulder just as he stepped into the elevator.
“ They’ll be open tomorrow,” he calmly explained as the elevator doors closed slowly behind them.
“ But there’s still several hours of fun left in the day!”
“ I said no, woman!” he said, adjusting her so that she was thrown over his shoulder and unable to dive to freedom.
“ But-”
“ I said no! So stop trying to ruin my fucking special night!” he snapped with typical Bradford drama.
Rolling her eyes, because she knew there was no use wasting her breath trying to talk sense into her irrational husband, she slumped over his shoulder and relaxed, waiting for the perfect moment to escape his clutches.
Chapter 6
“ Are you hungry?”
There was a slight pause before Haley whispered, “No.”
“ Do you want to take a bath?” he asked, gesturing towards the whirlpool tub in the corner of the large suite that was theirs for the next week.
She sighed, long and heavy as she continued to stand there, with her face pressed against the window along with her hands as she stared off towards the bright lights that marked the large Ferris wheel spinning in the distance. “No,” she mumbled, making his lips twitch.
“ We can go tomorrow,” he reminded her as he walked around the large suite, absently noting the prices on the mini bar stocked with liquor and overpriced nuts.
“ I know.”
“ Do you want to watch a movie?” he asked, absently gesturing towards the large flat screen television mounted on the wall.
“ No,” she sighed softly as she continued to stand there, staring at the colorful lights.
“ What do you want to do?” he asked, smiling when any other man would probably be pissed that his new wife was more interested in pressing her cute little nose against a window, staring off longingly at a theme park instead of spending time with him.
“ Nothin’,” she said with another one of those sighs that had him chuckling as he shook his head, giving up. This was why he loved this woman after all….
She was like no other woman that he’d ever known and she was his .
“ Why don’t we go for a walk and I’ll let you buy me some fried dough,” he suggested, grabbing one of the keycards off the bureau and headed for the door,