The Littlest Boss by Janet Lee Nye

Author:Janet Lee Nye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Superromance
Published: 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

A STRONG WOMAN. Sadie’s words came back to him as he waited outside the restaurant. The air was still chilly but the sun was warm on his face. As February gave way to March, winter was on its way out. It felt odd, going on a date for lunch, but they were working around her schedule. Tiana’s SUV turned into the parking lot and he felt his mood lift. He walked to where she parked and opened the door for her.

“Hey,” she said almost shyly as she took his hand.

“Hey, yourself,” he said, kissing her on the cheek. “Welcome to our first official date.”

She smiled. “I thought lunch at your place was our first date.”

“I said first official date.”

“Okay, Engineer Man, you split that hair.”

He hooked his arm around her waist and they began walking back to the restaurant. “Engineer. I’ve been promoted from maid at last!”

“This seems weird,” Tiana said after the waitress left with their orders.

“Why?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. I’ve never really been on a date before.”

“Never?” He leaned forward and put a hand over hers. He’d never seen her off-balance before.

Her cheeks darkened. “No. After Lily, I was focused on getting through school. I didn’t date.”

“Good to know. Now I just need to make this the best first date ever.”

They stared at each other for a moment. DeShawn grinned. “Now I feel awkward.”

Tiana picked her purse up from the chair beside her. “Luckily, I came prepared.” She unzipped the purse and took out a small stack of index cards.

The sight of the white cards, bound with a rubber band, brought back a rush of memories and he began to laugh. Tiana smiled and undid the rubber band. “Oh, man,” he said, wiping at his streaming eyes. “Okay, had a flashback there. Mickie sitting at her kitchen table desk last summer, six-inch stack of index cards, begging people to quiz her.”

“Mickie is a brilliant woman,” Tiana said with a hint of her good old snark. She slapped a card down on the table between them.

He spun it around. “Tell me one unexpected thing about yourself,” he read. “What? We each answer?”

“That’s the idea.”

“Where’d you come up with this?”

“My mother gave them to me.”

“You told your mother we were going on a date?”

“Yes. It’s not a secret, DeShawn, we’re just keeping it amongst the grown-ups for now. Answer the question.”

“No. Wait. Did you tell her anything else?”

Tiana rolled her eyes. “I didn’t tell her about that. What’s wrong with you? I told her we were going out today.”

Now he felt his face go hot. Of course he hadn’t thought she’d told her mother about sleeping with him. It was the ordinariness of it. She talked to her mother. Normal. He’d never told his mother one single detail about his life. In fact, he actively hid it from her. He looked back to the card. “I played the flute in my high school’s marching band.”

He laughed at Tiana’s shocked face. He reached across the table and pushed up on her chin to close her open mouth.

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