I stood, walked around the table, and pulled her to her feet.
I kissed her like I already knew the answer.
“You’re it, Tempi.”
She melted into me, sighing against my mouth.“Okay then.”
“Now it’s your turn,” I said.“What questions did you have?”
She laid her hand on my chest.“Don’t look so worried,” she laughed.“I just wanted to know about how you got your name and how in the world you were able to afford buying the Sam James building.”
“Uh, well,” I stalled.I had the answers to both questions, but I thought she was going to ask them.“How did you know I bought the Sam James building?”
She wrinkled her nose.“Gramps let it slip.He said I needed to ask you how you managed to make that happen.”
Fucking Gramps.The guy had good intentions, but sometimes he just needed to shut his mouth.“Well, I got an inheritance from my grandfather a few years back.”
She nodded.“And it was enough to put a down payment on the building?”
I cringed.“Well, it was more like enough to buy about twenty Sam James buildings,” I confessed.
Her jaw dropped.“Stop it,” she gasped.“You’re a bajillionaire?Who in the world was your grandfather?”
This is where things were going to get a little sticky.“Uh, Hank Bonds.”
She blinked rapidly.“Did you just say that your grandfather was Hank Bonds?As in Bonds Landscaping?”
I nodded.“That would be him.He raised me when my parents died when I was a baby.”
She shook her head.“I am so sorry about your parents, but that is insane that your grandfather was Hank Bonds.That explains how you are a bajillionaire.I don’t think there is a person alive who doesn’t know Hank Bonds.He had those cheesy commercials that just got stuck in your head.”She snapped her fingers at me.“For lawns that shine and hedges trimmed tight, Call Bonds Landscaping, done just right!From curb to yard, we do it all, big or small, just give us a call!”she sang.“I used to get that jingle stuck in my head at least once a day.”
“That isn’t the first time I have heard that, doll.”
She reached up and trailed her fingers down my cheek.“I want you to know I’m with you for your hot body, amazing sexual prowess, and your ability to make me feel safe.Not because you’re a bajillionaire.”
I let out a loud laugh.“Yeah, I wasn’t really worried about you being with me for my money since you just found out a minute ago I even had money.”
She winked.“Touche.”
“What was your other question?”I asked.
She laughed.“Why is your name Twister?”
See, that was the one I wasn’t looking forward to answering.I cupped my hand to my ear.“What was the question?”
She rolled her eyes.“Spill the beans, why you’re Twister, handsome.I need to get downstairs to open the bar soon.”
“You could just go open the bar, and we can talk about this later,” I offered.
“Oh no, no, no.I need to know right now because you keep skirting around the answer.”
I sighed.“One night when I first joined the Saint’s Outlaws…” Jesus, was I really going to tell this story?
“Yes,” Tempi prompted.
“I played Twister.”
She rapidly blinked.“What?”
