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WILD:I know that now. Give me another chance, baby girl. I can make it up to you. I promise.
I bite my bottom lip, wondering how to respond. Part of me knows that I’m already half in love with the guy and I should push him away and do my best to protect my heart, but he seems sincere.
If I push him away, will I ruin my chance at my happily ever after?
In the end, I decide to respond as neutrally as I can.
BRISTLE:We’ll see.
He doesn’t respond to that and I lean back in my chair, wondering what I’ve gotten myself into.
I do my best to push Wild from my mind as I get to work. I spent all day yesterday organizing the office and getting to know some of the dancers and other employees here. I need to work on the shift schedule and input some of the invoices tonight.
I’m about halfway through the invoices when there’s a knock on the office door and I look up into the mismatched eyes of Wild.
“Hey,” I say, slightly startled to see him.
“Baby girl,” he says, his voice husky and I can feel my body starting to react to him already.
“What are you doing here?” I ask, wondering how bad my hair looks right now.
“You need to eat. I brought you food.”
He holds up a brown paper bag and my stomach growls as I smell grease and salt.
He gives me a sly smile and my stomach rolls over.
Wild gets settled in the chair across the desk from me, looking pleased with himself and I sigh, fighting back a smile as he passes me a burger and some fries.
“Thanks. You didn’t have to do that.”
“I wanted to,” he says simply.
We start to eat in silence but it isn’t long before he’s breaking that.
“Do you like working here?” He asks and I glance up at him.
“Are you going to try to threaten to fire me again?” I tease him, although I’m not really joking.
“No, I just wanted to know what you would do if you could choose to do anything in the world. Somehow, I doubt it would be managing a strip club.”
I chew my bite of burger, thinking about his question.
I’ve never really thought about what I would do if I could do anything in the world, because that was never even an option before. It still isn’t, so why get my hopes up?
“I don’t know. I don’t mind working here. I like business and being the manager,” I say with a shrug.
He studies me across the desk and I try to keep my face blank.
“Do you like Wyoming and Valor? Or are you more of a big city girl?” He asks next.
“No, I like the smaller towns,” I tell him, shoving some fries into my mouth as we stare at each other across the desk.
The rest of our dinner continues in much of the same way, with him asking me a question and then studying my face when I answer, before he moves onto the next one.
It should be annoying, but I find it kind of cute. I’ve never had anyone take such an active interest in me before, and to my surprise, I kind of like it.
He’s acting like I’m the most important thing in the world, like I’m the best thing that he’s ever seen. It’s hard to remain immune to that.
