I wasn’t exactly itching to get back to New York either. “No,” I said. “How about you let her decide,” he said, starting to smirk before wincing, which turned into a frown. Sure, his story was flimsy. “You’ve got two minutes to get your employer out of here.”
“Mr. I’ll have a car meet us there and take Natalie home.”
“You don’t think she’d want to come with us?” Natashya asked. So, instead of recounting the horrible things he said about her to score points, I just held her. “Goddamn, man!” Tyler said. The look in her eyes said she had no idea what to do. Not only was he handsome, but he was good. Liz picked herself off the ground, eyeing Chloe as she reached down to help Tyler to his. I stared into her wide brown eyes, and time seemed to come to a standstill. “Yeah,” he said, grinning as if giving me the punchline to an uncommonly good joke. You know that, though. “You changed your mind!”
“Where’s Tyler?” I barked. “I’m the guy whose house you’re in, and you’re going to answer some questions.”
He closed his eyes and then opened them a little more, understanding starting to slowly flicker to life in his eyes.
