My Favorite Mistake by Beth Kendrick

Author:Beth Kendrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2004-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Tuesday night at the Roof Rat boiled down to me, Flynn and Ian, who had struck up something of a courtship with Skye after I talked her into rebuffing Lars. Nary a single customer. At nine o’clock, torn between abject boredom and panic over lost profits, my sister decided we needed a distraction. She ran up to the apartment to unearth, from the bottom of a closet, a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Ian excused himself to go retrieve his pipe and tobacco from his car, whereupon Skye dumped all 500 pieces on the table and announced, “Flynn, I have some excellent news. I told Ian that his college department group thing could have their annual wine and cheese party here next week. Isn’t that exciting?” She squared her shoulders, trying to look brisk and businesslike. “I’m doing it all myself! I am totally becoming a burned-out career woman.”

“You sure are,” he agreed. “But what about my big event? We’re supposed to be prepping for that.”

“Don’t worry, we can do both,” she assured him.

I jerked my head up. “What exactly is ‘your big event’ anyway?”

“Just a little get-together for the hockey team.” He turned a puzzle piece over and over in his hand. “A little get-together with a lot of alcohol.”

“Yeah, we might even hire a band,” Skye said.

“With a bass player and everything.” He smirked at me. “You’ll love it.”

My sister looked horrified. “Can’t you two just be happy for once?”

“I don’t know. Can we?” He turned to me, and I knew he was thinking about my abrupt departure from Main Street after he’d kissed me.

“I don’t know,” I muttered.

There was a moment of silence you could have cut with a knife and served in slices on little doilies.

Then Ian clattered back through the door, gazing with adoration at Skye. “Always so lovely, my lamb.”

She puckered up and gave Ian a tiny, non-lipstick-smearing kiss on the cheek. “Oh, how sweet!”

As I looked around for a place to vomit, I risked a moment of eye contact with Flynn, who was laughing. But he stopped when I caught his eye and I realized that one little kiss in the rain today didn’t erase the big kiss-off ten years ago.

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