Page 70 of His Curvy Happiness
“You’re welcome.”
“You should come to dinner with us,” Mikayla said while Landon and I were staring at each other.
“What?” I blurted.
“Sure,” he said at the same time.
I looked over at him, my eyes wide. He shrugged.
“I’m about to close for the day. I was locking up out back when you came in. But I don’t have to if you’d rather I didn’t.”
I had no option but to say yes. If I said no, I was a jerk. But I couldn’t exactly enjoy flirting lessons with him when my kid was right there.
But I could enjoy his company, which I had been doing far too much lately.
“You should come with us,” I finally said.
His grin was one of victory and gratitude. “Let me finish locking up and I’ll be right back.”
I nodded, watching him walk away.
“I like him, Mom.”
“Me, too. He’s very nice.”
“Where are we going to eat?”
Shit. Paying for Mikayla and me was already a tight stretch of my budget. Adding Landon in was going to make things even harder, but there was no way I’d ask him to pay for his own dinner.
I ran through our usual places and struggled to think of somewhere we could afford.
“All right, ladies. Where are we headed?” Landon asked, joining us once more.
“We haven’t decided yet,” Mikayla said. “We don’t go out to eat a lot. Where would you recommend?”
“My favorite place is Will Work For Burgers, but I can also be talked into Gino’s without any work at all.”
“I’ve never been to either,” Mikayla said.
“No way,” Landon gasped, glancing at me as he ushered us toward the front. “Burgers or Italian? My treat since I’m invading your night out.”
“You already gave us flowers. I can’t ask you to buy dinner, too.”
“You’re not asking, Casey. I’m happy to do it. I don’t get to have dinner with two amazing women most nights.”
“Just on some?” Mikayla asked with a smirk.
“Mikayla!”
Landon tipped his head back and laughed hard. “I like you. You’ve got fire. A bit like your mother.”
Mikayla shook her head. “She’s a mom. She doesn’t have that.”
“Oh, your mother has fire. Did she tell you the first time she came into Blossom & Grow she knocked over a display and almost took out another one?”
“How is that fire?”
Landon considered her question for a second, then shrugged. “I don’t know, but it definitely had an impact.”
