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“Exactly.” She didn’t say anything else, and the call fell quiet.
He realized that she was waiting for an answer to her question. He did not want to guide this new team anywhere, but he didn’t want Wynona to think less of him. “Yeah, I can do it.”
“Great! I would go, but I really need to get all this computer work done.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” he said, pretending not to believe her.
“Plus, it’s going to be as cold as a penguin kiss up there tonight.”
Her use of the wordkissmade him warm. “Okay, we should both get some sleep, then.”
“Wait!”
He waited. “Yeah?”
“That date you mentioned ...”
Oh no, was this the part where she told him she had to head back to Nebraska? “Yeah?”
“Want to have breakfast tomorrow? I know you’ll be tired, but I also think you’ll want to go to the press conference, right?”
He wasn’t sure he wanted to go. He hadn’t had much fun at the last one. He thought they’d probably deliver good news at this one, but he’d thought that at the last one too.
“You don’t have to,” she said. The sadness in her voice hurt his heart.
“Wynona Ghost Bear, I can think of nothing I’d like better than to take you out to breakfast tomorrow.”
“I like it when you say my name.”
“Good to know. I’ll say it more often.”
“And if you want to be thorough, my middle name just so happens to be May.”
“Really? Also good to know.”
“Is your middle name Wolfgang?”
He laughed bitterly. “Definitely not. Nothing against any Wolfgangs out there, but my brothers only picked that name to embarrass me.” She knew she wanted to know what his middle name really was, so he fessed up. “My middle name is Cline.”
“Cline?That’s even weirder than Wolfgang!”
“I know.”
“Wait ...”
And there it was. She was a smart cookie. He knew she’d figure it out.
“Are you named after ...”
She seemed scared to insult him, so he did it for her. “Yep, I’m named after Tanya Tucker and Patsy Cline. My mom wanted a girl to name Tanya, but she gave up.”
“So you would have been a girl named Tanya Patsy?”
He laughed. He’d never thought about it like that. “I’m not sure. That sounds particularly terrible.”
“Well, I’m glad you were a boy named Tucker Cline.” It didn’t sound so bad when she said it. “Your mom must have been a real country music fan.”
“She sure was. There was always music playing in her kitchen. So, where’s breakfast?”
