Valentine's Date Disaster: A Novelette (Dean and Callie Book 2) by Annabelle Costa

Author:Annabelle Costa [Costa, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rose Bud Press
Published: 2018-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: Callie

It did happen, you know. With the water glasses. I really am that big a klutz.

I pick up my menu from the table as Dean does the same. His hair is slightly tousled from his hat and I want to reach out to fix it for him. But I don’t because it’s sexy that way. He’s so sexy. It kills me that the table is too long for him to comfortably lean forward and kiss me.

It’s a relief to see the menu is in English, but what’s troubling are the prices. This place is expensive. Like, ridiculously expensive. And I know Dean lives with his parents for at least partially financial reasons, so it kills me he’ll have to pay over a hundred bucks to take me to dinner. Yes, he picked the place, so he presumably knew what he was getting into, but still.

“Hey.” I lean in to whisper to him. “Dean, this food is really expensive.”

He smiles crookedly. “Don’t worry about it.”

“Don’t play like you’re rich, Palmer. I saw your car.”

“Get what you want,” he says firmly.

To hell with that. I’m getting the cheapest thing on the menu.

After we place our orders for food and wine with the waiter, we’re left staring at each other while we sip from our water glasses. Dean has this smile playing on his lips that makes my whole body tingle. I don’t know much about this guy, but I just like him. I’ve never had this kind of instant connection with another person.

“So are you caught up with your schoolwork?” he asks me.

I flip my palm back and forth. “As much as I’ll ever be. We’ve got a Contracts exam on Monday.”

“Contracts. Is that hard?”

“The textbook is twelve-hundred pages long. So… kind of.”

His eyes widen. “Twelve-hundred pages. Wow, that’s even longer than the last Harry Potter.”

I make a face. “And you can imagine it’s just as interesting.”

“So what do you learn about in Contracts?”

I think for a minute, trying to come up with a case that won’t be a total bore. “There’s the hairy hand case.”

He laughs. “The hairy hand case?”

I nod. “Hawkins vs. McGee. Hawkins’s hand was scarred from electrical wiring when he was a child, and a surgeon named McGee offered to do a surgery that he guaranteed would make his hand into a ‘one-hundred percent good hand.’ Since this happened in the 1920s, you can imagine he wasn’t successful.”

“So how did the hand get hairy?”

“McGee took a skin graft from Hawkins’s chest,” I explain. “So the hand started growing thick hair. Not exactly what you want on your hand.”

“Hmm. Couldn’t the surgeon have just done another graft on the guy’s bald spot and called it even?”

“No.” I roll my eyes. “It was a breach of contract, so the damages were awarded as the difference between a one-hundred percent good hand and a hairy hand.”

“Well, how do you know the hairy hand was from the surgery?” Dean says. “Aren’t there other things that cause hairy hands?” He winks. “You know what I’m talking about, Callie.

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