Dearest Readers,
Today’s excerpt is from my latest novel, The Angel and The Captain. It’s from Chapter 1 and the Captain is about to ask Angel out for their first date. They are not the same age, the Captain being in his mid-40’s, while the Angel is still in her early 20’s.
Look, I am not stalker!
I swear!
I merely aggregated assorted pieces of information I’d gathered over the past couple of weeks. Based on that aggregation, I happened to strongly suspect that Angel just happened to be a few minutes away from her lunch hour when I waddled up to the teller line. My plan was almost foiled by some other skank teller being available when I was next in line, but I recovered quickly and let Old Lady Bagsby go in front of me and soon enough I was able to present myself at Angel’s window with some BS transaction I could’ve done at the ATM. Angel herself presented the opportunity I was looking for when she asked me how I was doing.
“I’m hungry. How about having lunch with me today?”
This is Angel’s version of how it happened, also from Chapter 1:
My captain is such a dork! This was not, is not, how you ask a girl out!
I knew something was up, though. First, he let Mrs. Bagsby cut in front of him so he could visit my window. Second, his transaction could have been completed in his living room.
Good. I was ready for something to be up. He was a handsome older gentleman, which I found highly erotic, but there was something else: he was very polite and he made me laugh, which put him two up on a lot of the boys who ask me out.
I’d always thought of him as The Captain. Everything about him, from his bearing to his stride to his signature screamed command, a scream I was open to hearing, frankly. The Captain always appeared to know exactly what he was about. I was ready for this, too.
He wasted no time, either. I asked him how he was and he said hungry, he was going to lunch and why didn’t I join him?
My stomach froze. I’d been waiting to hear those words for what seemed like an eternity…
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