All Chapters of Vanilla: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

The thought alone made her heart race, and she found an additional pressure to look her best placed against her already difficult decision...Jasper paused in his steps, his eyes caught on the cardigan thrown over the back of a dinning chair that stood beneath the light of his kitchen, and a smile found his lips at the fond memory of a familiar pair of lips against his. He sighed, his hand falling from where he had been rolling up the sleeve of his dress shirt before he continued walking, only in a new direction, approaching the garment. His ha

Jasper sighed, pulling his phone away from his ear with frustration before he placed the device on the counter in defeat and took a seat on a stool by the kitchen bench. Tiredly, the man ran his hands over his face, an attempt to rid himself of the concern that clutched him.His house seemed all too silent without her; the girl he had known for the span of a few days, the girl that remained such a mystery to him and left him begging for more.

"Can I take you out for lunch?" Jasper broke the silence, his fingers working the buttons of his shirt back into place as his eyes watched the girl, sorting through her drawer in search of a fresh set of clothes.

Genevieve pulled the door shut behind her silently before she turned with light feet and began to creep through the hallway, gripping her phone tight in her hand, eyes wide and alert. 

Jasper lifted his phone away from his ear once more, placing the device onto the surface of his desk as he watched Genevieve's contact slip into voicemail. He switched his phone off only a moment after, sliding the device away from his sight as he wrestled away the pressing need to contact her. What had she thought of what happened the previous afternoon? What had she thought when she walked through the front door only to see him in the company of her mother? Through it all, he did not know how to make sense of what he had heard from Mona