McMillian's Matchmaker by Gail Sattler

Author:Gail Sattler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-03-19T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

Josh tucked the bag of books under the seat and slid behind the wheel. “I can’t believe how much that cost. I had no idea kids’ books were that expensive.”

“I know what you mean, especially when you had to buy five of them. But it’s a real good start, and when the younger kids improve their reading skills, you can pass the books down from the older ones. There’s what, two years between their ages all the way down the line?”

“Something like that. So, where do you want to go for supper?”

“I don’t care, but I would think you don’t want to go somewhere that serves hamburgers.”

“You got that right. Steak?”

“Sure.”

Josh started the van and drove out of the parking lot, heading for a steak house he’d driven by countless times yet never been to.

As he pulled into the parking lot, he scanned the row of parked cars, gladly noting he wasn’t the only van in the bunch. To make himself feel better, he pulled into an empty spot beside another van.

He should have been driving his two-seater sports car to take a woman out for a Saturday evening dinner, not a family minivan, which he noticed the hard way was piled with toys and old hamburger wrappers and drink cans in the backseats. But being the practical type, he’d put his car into storage, since every time he traveled, he had a load of kids with him. At the price of car insurance, it didn’t make sense to have the car sit in the garage, untouched, except for when the kids hit it when they put their bikes away.

Since they were earlier than the usual dinner crowd, they were shown straight to a table. Immediately, Josh knew they’d come to the right place. There wasn’t a kid anywhere.

Neither of them spoke when they were seated. After a silence that was much too long for comfort, Josh folded his hands on the table and tried to act casual. “Well, here we are.”

Melissa did the same. “Yes. I guess we are.”

Silence hung between them, and for the life of him, Josh couldn’t figure out what to say. They were supposed to be on a date, but because the only reason they were together was to satisfy a little kid, it felt like anything but a date.

If he had been with Theresa, he knew exactly what he would be doing. They would have started the night out by telling each other about what they’d done since the last time they’d been together, and Theresa would catch him up on the news of the week, which would have revolved around either a familiar activity or mutual friends. Then Theresa would have teased him about something dumb he’d done recently, and together they would share a good laugh.

But those days were gone. He wasn’t here with Theresa, and this wasn’t a real date. He was here with his nephew’s teacher, a woman who had sacrificed time from her weekend to help him buy some books for the kids.

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