Tempted Trapped and Too Late to Run novel Chapter 378

Dylan seemed totally out of it tonight, like he was physically present but mentally somewhere else, completely tuning Jackson out. Feeling frustrated, Jackson knocked back his drink. “Dylan?”

Finally snapping back to reality, Dylan answered, sounding detached. “What?”

“Seriously, dude, what’s going on with you tonight? You’re a million miles away.”

Dylan rubbed his temples just as his phone buzzed. “I gotta go,” he said abruptly.

Jackson was taken aback. Dylan had put this whole thing together to introduce him to Clara and talk about some potential projects with the Bradford family. And now he was bailing before they even got started?

Taking a deep breath, Jackson felt a heavy sense of unease settle over him. “You—”

But before he could finish, Aiden showed up to whisk Dylan away.

Feeling even more frustrated, Jackson pulled out his phone and shot a text to his current fling.

[What’s going on? Are you really that busy?]

His last message had gone unanswered, too.

He couldn’t wrap his head around it. Was she really busier than he was?

After another ten minutes of radio silence, Jackson was on edge. He wasn’t used to being ignored like this.

He got up and dialed her number as he walked out. “Kaitlyn, this is crazy. I always drop everything when you call, but now that I need you, you’re too busy?”

Kaitlyn was in the middle of hashing out a script with some writers. Hearing his complaint, she frowned. “Jackson, didn’t we set the rules from the beginning?”

When they started this fling, Jackson had been the one to lay down the law—no prying into each other’s lives outside the bedroom, no strings attached.

He’d been pretty cocky, figuring if she didn’t go for it, he’d just move on to someone else.

But she hadn’t even blinked, almost like she was relieved, as if this was exactly what she wanted too.