Nadine restrained a snort when she realized where he was leading her. She had flashbacks to middle school, loitering with teens and scrounging up change to buy endless fries and appetizer samplers. She'd flirted with the waiter, which in retrospect must have been awkward, since she'd been somewhere around twelve.
These days it was all dives or gastropubs. Weird, the memories a person held onto, the way they always came back. Inconvenient.
She was still off-kilter, too unclear on what he wanted to know how to respond. Would he want contrition? Appeasement? He'd softened up pretty quick when he thought she was leaking feelings. But he'd seemed to like the banter pretty well, before he'd gone all off-script bounty hunter. But he might not be in the mood for sass just yet.
She slid into the opposite side of the booth, setting her bags down onto the seat beside her and untangling her arms from the handles. The menu hadn't changed much in the last decade-plus. She looked at the plastic-laminated cardboard anyway, rather than follow the path of his gun. She was, regardless, hyper-aware of the presence of the gun.
Would trying to re-seduce him mollify him, or only piss him off?
Her mouth twitched at his conclusion. "You said it," she murmured, "not me."
She perked up when the waitress appeared, putting on her cheerful customer voice. "I'll get a Hawaiian Heartthrob to drink, aaaaaand, can I get an appetizer sampler?" She resisted the temptation to get an early start on day drinking, or to order a steak she wasn't planning to eat. Better to play it safe for now.
These days it was all dives or gastropubs. Weird, the memories a person held onto, the way they always came back. Inconvenient.
She was still off-kilter, too unclear on what he wanted to know how to respond. Would he want contrition? Appeasement? He'd softened up pretty quick when he thought she was leaking feelings. But he'd seemed to like the banter pretty well, before he'd gone all off-script bounty hunter. But he might not be in the mood for sass just yet.
She slid into the opposite side of the booth, setting her bags down onto the seat beside her and untangling her arms from the handles. The menu hadn't changed much in the last decade-plus. She looked at the plastic-laminated cardboard anyway, rather than follow the path of his gun. She was, regardless, hyper-aware of the presence of the gun.
Would trying to re-seduce him mollify him, or only piss him off?
Her mouth twitched at his conclusion. "You said it," she murmured, "not me."
She perked up when the waitress appeared, putting on her cheerful customer voice. "I'll get a Hawaiian Heartthrob to drink, aaaaaand, can I get an appetizer sampler?" She resisted the temptation to get an early start on day drinking, or to order a steak she wasn't planning to eat. Better to play it safe for now.
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