The Best Mistake by Linda Kage

Author:Linda Kage
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Thirty minutes after Cole somehow managed to drag himself off Deri and her couch, he found himself seated at a restaurant table. The waitress, a fresh-faced girl who didn’t look a day over fifteen, set their drinks down and started off, saying she’d be back in a couple of minutes to take their order.

Needing a drink, bad, he picked up his glass and gulped.

“So…” he said after a refreshed sigh and in a vain attempt to keep his gaze off Deri’s mouth. But she looked so delicious as she sat across from him, he couldn’t stop remembering how her kiss felt, how she tasted.

“So,” she repeated and licked her lips in a nervous manner as she glanced down at his mouth as well. Then she topped off the nervous lick with a tense laugh. “For the life of me, I can’t remember what people talk about on a first date.”

She didn’t want to talk. He could see it in her eyes. Then again, neither did he. They both simply wanted to get this preliminary date business out of the way, so they could rush back to her apartment and attack each other.

“Well.” He blew out a breath, unable to think up a fitting conversation at all, unless fitting meant he could list all the places he wanted to see and touch her. “It’s probably best not to start naming our ten future children quite yet.”

“Twenty,” she corrected, “though I’ve always been partial to Elvira.”

“Mmm.” He lifted his finger as he took another drink, then added, “Nicodemus.”

She wrinkled her nose. “Octavian.”

And the contest to come up with the most awful name was on. “Helga.”

“Hitler.”

Cole arched back his head and let out a belly laugh. “Voldermort,” he tried.

To which she immediately tossed back, “Bavmorda.”

He blinked. “Who?”

Deri shrugged. “She was the evil queen in the movie Willow.” Before he could respond, she suggested, “Thaddeus.”

With a scowl, Cole sniffed. “Hey, I like the name Thaddeus. We could call him Thad.”

“I knew a Thad in school.” She made a distinctly disgusted pinched expression. “He was the biggest jerk I ever knew. He always stole my pencils.”

Cole lifted one eyebrow. “He stole your pencils?” He couldn’t help but snicker.

“Hey,” she huffed. “I bought these really cool mechanical pencils with little sparkles on the barrel. They even came with a cap that covered the eraser.”

After letting out a scandalized gasp, Cole set a hand over his mouth. “My God, the nerve of that beast to take your special pencils.”

Narrowing her gaze, Deri muttered, “Just for that, we’re naming one of the kids Stanton, Junior.”

Cole’s smile died. “Oh, hell no. No kid should be tortured that much.” Thoughtfully scratching his temple, he murmured, “Though we probably should throw in a couple family names.” He paused with a short frown. “What’s your mom’s name?”

He realized he’d asked exactly the wrong question when the glow in Deri’s eyes died and her shoulder’s collapsed. Pressing her hand to her chest, she croaked. “You want to name a kid after my mom?” She sounded honored, as if he’d just given her some kind of lifetime achievement award.

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