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Chapter Four

Tamsin

Two days later I’m pretty much doing the same thing when there’s a knock on my door. I get to work from home designing websites, business landing pages, and social media designs and I love it. I love that I don’t have to get dressed every day or start at a designated time or that I even work for someone else. Yeah, I have customers but as long as I make the deadline they don’t care when I get up or stop working.

So, I pad over to the door in my PJs and open my door with no thought to who it might be, just wanting to get back to work. I’m pulled up short when standing on the other side of my door is none other than the someone who has taken up way too much space in my mind.

“Levi? What are you doing here?”

“I can’t visit my girlfriend’s place?”

“Girlfriend?”

“Yeah, girlfriend. You gonna invite me in or you want to discuss shit out in the hallway.”

I’m stunned, but I back up and open the door wider for him to come inside.

“Come in.” All I can think of is vampire mythology and how I just invited him in. I shut the door behind him and wonder what the fuck I am doing. Besides playing with the devil. “Does this mean you agree to help me?”

“Yeah, I’ll help you.”

I wave my hand indicating the couch and sit in a silent gesture for him to make himself comfortable. If he wants to sit he can. I wish he would since he already towers over me but I’m not going to say anything. About that anyway.

“And what do you want in return?”

I can only think of the moment in the Disney movie where the fish girl signs her voice away to the evil squid lady. Or was she an octopus? Is that what I’m doing? Signing over something I really don’t want to do without?

“I’m not sure yet, but we’ll say you owe me a favor.”

“Open-ended. Yeah, I’m not sure I’m alright with that. How do I know you won’t ask me to do something awful?”

“Like?”

“I don’t know, like using me to fuck everyone you’ve lost money to in a poker game or…,” the look on his face is one of alarm but I keep going, “or passing me around to your friends that you owe something to.”

“Who the hell have you been hanging around, Kitten?” He kind of already knows the answer to that question, doesn’t he? “Me and my friends don’t whore women out to pay our debts or offer pussy like it’s a fucking joint to be passed around.”

“I…read it in a book.” It was a good story too. The hero comes through and makes sure the heroine doesn't have to do anything bad. “You know what, never mind. I’ve been thinking and this was dumb and would never work.”

Blue eyes narrow on me making me feel like I’m being studied under a magnifying glass. It’s disconcerting.

“Why?”