Page 7 of Tiger Betrayal

He strode around to her driver’s side door. “What are you doing?” he asked as she rolled her window down.

“Ummm…” This had been a mistake. “I put food on your truck.”

He ghosted a glance to his truck and back to her. “Why?”

“As a thank you. I wrote it on the bag. I wrote thank you.”

He narrowed his eyes. “Do you want to fuck me?”

“Wh-what?” she asked, her heart dipping to her toes.

He stood to his full height. “I can’t figure you out.”

“Um, I wasn’t bringing you food for that reason.”

“Do you want to fuck me. Yes or no.”

“No.”

His eyes narrowed more, and a slight smile stretched his masculine lips. “Liar,” he said low.

She didn’t know what to make of this guy. He made her feel like she was always on unsteady ground around him. “I shouldn’t have come here. I was just trying to do something nice for you but it’s clear that—”

“Stellan.”

“I’m sorry?”

“My name is Stellan.”

“Oh. I’m—”

“Laramie. I know. You keep telling me.”

“Yeah. Laramie Tucker. Okay.” She shrugged, deeply regretting coming here. Tomorrow was going to be awkward at her first day on the job. She scrunched up her face. “Can we forget I was here today?”

“No. I’m going to eat your food.”

Laramie pursed her lips. “You called me weird yesterday.”

“I still think you’re weird.”

Shoot. Laramie forced a smile and hated everything about this moment. “Okay, have a good day, Stellan.”

“Yep,” he said as he started walking away. “Hey, Laramie?”

“Yeah?” she asked tiredly, expecting another insult.

“I didn’t say weird was a bad thing.”

She twisted in the open window to see him walking away. He grabbed the bag of food off his truck and lifted it into the air and gave her one of those smooth, hot-boy winks.

Her heart beat faster, and something strange happened inside of her stomach.

Baffled by their encounter, she watched him disappear inside the front door and then rolled her window up. She sat there for a few more seconds, just gripping the steering wheel and staring at the busy road ahead that she needed to take a right on.

Okay, so he thought she was weird. But he liked weird?

This job was going to be more complicated than she’d thought, and here was why—Stellan had been right.