Teaser Time! Jade and Garret go grocery shopping.
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We start in the produce section and Garret places a bag of oranges in our cart along with some bananas. Then he picks out some apples.

“Okay, Garret. I think we have plenty of fruit.”

He sets the apples in the cart, kissing my cheek. “You need to eat better.”

“I know. You tell me that every day. But I can’t eat all that fruit. It’s too much.”

“It’s not too much.” He gets behind me and pushes the cart forward, pushing me along with it. “You’re supposed to eat four or five pieces of fruit a day.”

“Are you serious?” I watch as he takes a plastic produce bag from the dispenser. “Who the hell eats that much fruit?”

“I do.” He shakes the plastic bag open and fills it with green grapes. “I eat fruit at least five times a day.”

“You do?” I stare at him. “How do I not know this?”

“Because you don’t pay attention. I always have it at breakfast and in the afternoon for a snack and usually after dinner.”

“Huh.” Now that I think of it, he does eat fruit at almost every meal.

He drops a bag of lettuce in the cart, then picks up two avocados.

I sigh. “Not the green vegetables.”

“Technically, an avocado is a fruit,” he says as he hands them to me.

“It’s still green.”

He laughs. “I swear. You’re worse than a little kid. I’m going to make you eat better whether you like it or not.” He comes around the cart and kisses me. “I want you around for a very long time.”

I hug him, not even caring that we’re in the grocery store with people watching. “I appreciate your efforts, but I’m still getting pudding cups. And potato chips. And chocolate cereal. And those donuts with the—”

“Jade?” He pulls back, smiling.

I smile back. “Okay, I’ll skip the donuts.”

Excerpt taken from Forever You (The Jade Series #5)
Copyright 2014 Allie Everhart