The Curvy Girl Meets the Billionaire Werewolf novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: The Date

The bell over the door jingled before I had even unlocked it.

It was Delphine, and she pushed the door open herself.

I had never turned the bolt after Griffin came in.

She looked at my face, then my flour-covered apron, then the back door swinging behind me.

"Pity is very generous," she said, "from a man like that."

"It isn't pity."

"He bid nine thousand dollars on himself."

"I noticed."

"A man doesn't do that for a baker."

Griffin walked out of the prep room with his sweater on inside out.

He took in Delphine, and his whole face went flat and cold.

"We're closed," he said.

"The first dance at the Frost Gathering is mine, Griffin.

"I would have won it fairly."

"You'd have won it at five thousand two hundred.

"I was not for sale at that price."

Her lips went white.

She looked at me again.

"Enjoy your date, Miss Dahlgren," she said.

"They don't last."

She left, and the bell rang behind her.

Griffin crossed the shop in two steps and took my hand.

"I'm sorry about that."

"It's fine.

"Turn your sweater around."

He looked down and laughed, a real warm laugh, and my whole chest went loose.

"Friday," he said.

"Pick the place.

"Anywhere in the city."

"The date I won?"

"The date you won."

"Fifteen minutes and a dinner for two in a suite," I said.

"You already had the suite."

"Then pick again."

I picked the Lakeshore Diner.

It sat at the end of Pier Street under a flickering neon sign.

They made the best cherry pie on the lake, and I had been eating there since I was six.

On Friday night Griffin Stroud folded himself into a red vinyl booth built for people half his size.

His knees hit the table.

The waitress, a woman of sixty with a pencil in her hair, took one look at him and said, "Oh, Lord."

"Two coffees," I said.

"And the cherry, with ice cream.

"Two forks."

"One fork," Griffin said.

"I'll share yours."

I stared at him.

Nobody had ever wanted my fork.

He took the pie when it came, speared a bite, and held it across the table until I opened my mouth.

It was sweet and warm, and he watched my lips.

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