Page 48 of Ruin

He smiles at me.

“You wike my picture, Zweus?” Gigi asks him.

He pulls his eyes from me to look at her picture. “It’s really good, Gigi. Do you like coloring?”

“S’okay,” she says. Typical four-year-old response. “Yellow’s my favowite color. Then, pink. Purple. And blue. What’s your favowite color?” she asks him.

“Yellow,” he says.

I know he’s fibbing because green is his favorite color. Or it used to be.

“Same as me!” Gigi beams at him.

He smiles. “Same as you,” he echoes.

Then, Megan Flirty McFlirterson appears back at our table with our drinks.

“Milk for Miss Gigi.” She puts it on the table in front of Gigi, who immediately picks it up and has a drink.

“Coffee for Cam.” She smiles at me as she puts it down in front of me.

I don’t even bother to smile back. I think her behavior has been really inappropriate, asking for Zeus’s number. I should complain to her boss.

“And coffee for Zeus.” She puts down a small jug of creamer between Zeus and me.

I pick it up, knowing Zeus takes his coffee black and pour some into mine.

Then, because I’m feeling bitchy, I offer it to him.

He frowns. “I don’t take creamer,” he says roughly.

“Oh, yeah. I forgot.”

His brow comes up. “You didn’t forget yesterday when you made me a coffee.”

Shit. Crap. And double shit.

I have nothing, so I ignore him and turn to Megan. “We’re ready to order now.”

I know Zeus hasn’t even had a chance to look at the menu. But I’m not in the mood for playing nice right now. And Gigi knows everything on the menu here and has already decided what she’s having, which will be—

“I’s have the cookies and cweam pancakes, pwease,” Gigi says, taking the words right out of my head.

“What would you like, Zeus?” Megan asks him, a flirtatious lilt to her voice.

If he says her, I’m going to throat-punch him.

I’m not normally a violent person, but I’m feeling all kinds of ragey right now.

Zeus turns to Gigi. “What do you recommend I have?”

She looks up from her coloring to him. “Same as me. They da best.”

He glances at Megan. “I’ll have the same as Gigi, just double up the order for me.”

“Growing guy, huh?” She simpers.

“I’m already grown,” he says.