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“Even if my way isn’t like tonight?”
“Aren’t you having a good time?”
“Yeah, yeah, I’m just...I don’t want to disappoint you, Trina. Like when our next date is burgers and a movie.”
She held his hand a little tighter, her smile radiating throughout her body. “Next date?”
“How about we agree that everything that doesn’t include Justin is a date?”
“Agreed.”
***
The memory stung Katrina, and as she looked around the room, trying to keep her gaze from settling on Lorenzo, she wondered if this counted, too.
The way they’d made their pact on that first official date.
But they weren’t dating anymore, and in fact, barely knew one another. She didn’t know what to say that wouldn’t bring up the millions of questions that she’d promised him she wouldn’t ask this day.
“So... Cade’s.” She shifted and forced a smile as she looked at him. “I see you followed your dream. Although I’m sure your pickup truck is a little worse for wear.”
“I wasn’t in a truck, or I wouldn’t look like this,” he replied, that half-grin of his wearing on her already frayed nerves. “You went there. What did you think?”
“I think people definitely go there to forget their troubles.”
“You think it’s horrible.” He was grinning as he said this, his eyes holding hers captive.
“I think the sticky carpet could be replaced.”
“True.”
“And that you need a new sign.”
He let out one short laugh. “Also true.”
“And that it should be Cade’s Bar and Grill. It could be a little more inviting and could probably improve your profit margin.”
His silence only lasted a beat. “That was your idea from the beginning.”
“So that’s why you didn’t go for it.”
“It hurt too much.”
Her eyes stung with unshed tears and she looked away from him.
“I see you’re still a theatre girl,” he added, letting her know he’d perused her Facebook profile.
“I see you think I’m not good enough for your world with your dreams.”
“No! No, Trina, it’s...I wasn’t good enough for you.”
“Oh, bullshit.”
“You, all of you, had these brilliant futures ahead of you. I was still a foster kid who was kicked out of the system when I turned 18. I didn’t have college in my future, or my parents’ money.”
“I have not lived off my parents’ money since I moved out on my own, thank you very much.”
“I wasn’t talking about you.”
