Geek Romance: Stories of Love Amidst the Oddballs by Grayson Kristine

Author:Grayson, Kristine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, humor, paranormal romance, short stories, theft, robbery, collection, mythology, western, photography, light romance, greek gods, wmg publishing, prince charming, kristine grayson
Publisher: WMG Publishing

“Geeks Bearing Gifts” by Kristine Grayson was first published in The Trouble With Heroes, edited by Denise Little, Daw Books, November, 2009.

Name-Calling

Kristine Grayson

Such a simple decision, really, and yet it held her up. She couldn’t say she would marry Van unless she knew what she would do about her name.

LizBet leaned back on the brown leather desk chair and stared out the wall of windows. Her office was in one of the tallest buildings in Portland, not quite on the top floor, but close enough. She could see the Columbia River and beyond to the mountain ranges narrowing into the Willamette Valley. Her desk, shiny oak, still smelled as woodsy as the day she bought it. Van had once teased her that she bought her furniture because it smelled good, not because it looked good.

She doodled on her Palm, the Mac humming on the credenza to her side. Mrs. Van L. Lyndale. Elizabeth Lyndale. Elizabeth Lyndale-Hayes. Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes. Elizabeth Hayes-Lyndale. She drew little hearts over the “I” in her first name, just as she had done in middle school, and made the period after “Mrs.” Into a small flower. Then she sighed and erased it all, and glanced at her brag wall for reassurance.

Her undergraduate degree from Vassar read Elizabeth Hayes, and so did the sign on her desk. She was just beginning to get a reputation, and the reputation came under the name Hayes. If she dropped it, she would have to start all over again.

Van had said he wouldn’t mind if she kept her name, and the statement, in the middle of a romantic dinner at her favorite restaurant near the river, had left her feeling unsettled. Even though she had expected the proposal, she hadn’t thought of the name thing until that moment. And instead of the resounding “yes” she had planned, she had smiled weakly and had asked a chance to think it over.

She put the Palm away and returned to the notes she had been studying for the deposition she had at three.

She would have to decide—and soon.

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