Page 71 of Teach Me to Laugh

“Sure thing.” She grinned, adding it to our bill.

I huffed, rolled my eyes, and let Beckett pay. It was as he was sliding the plate with the long john across the table, that I mumbled, “You’re a horrible man.”

“Me? I saw the way you were looking at it. You have a sweet tooth to rival the Cookie Monster.”

Cocking my head to the side, I asked on a memory of purple socks and the Two-Headed Monster. “What is your thing withSesame Street?”

“Me?” He feigned innocence. “I have nothingwithSesame Street.”

“I beg to differ,” I took a big bite of my breakfast donut. “You like comparing me to all the monsters from that show.”

“It was a favorite of mine.” He admitted sheepishly, his eyes getting suddenly shifty.

I giggled, because honestly, when a man tells a woman his favorite show wasSesame Street,what else can she do? “You’re adorable.”

“Your laugh is adorable.”

“Is it, now?”

“Like music.”

“Now you’re laying on the sauce a bit thick, don’t you think?”

A bark of laughter spilled from his throat, “With you? Never. I could lay layers and layers of sauce and it wouldn’t be enough to make you swoon.”

“Not true!” I declared, aghast. And then I asked, “You’re trying to make me swoon?”

“I’m always trying to make you swoon.”

I smiled, because how could I not? “I think I like that.”

“Good.” His eyes were hot on mine. “Because I don’t ever plan to stop.”

“Good.” I reiterated, breathless.

There was a beat of silence, and then Beckett announced, “I’ve been thinking,”

“Of?” I hedged, suddenly nervous.

“Kai and Raina set the date for July eighth.” I already knew this, and was terribly excited for the day they made their promise of forever final. Beckett continued, however, when I said nothing. “I was thinking we could fly out after the wedding.”

“Fly out—where?”

“Budapest.”

My eyes got wide. “Budapest?” Had I mentioned I loved this man? “Are you serious?”

“Yeah.”

“I—yes!”

“Good.” He grinned. “Because it’s already booked.”

“It is?”

“My mom liked you a lot.”

“Your mom?” Now my eyes were even bigger. “What?”

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