Chapter ThreeNina and her husband are conspicuously missing from the double-date that she had arranged, leaving her alone with the stoic Tiger Shifter who is surveying the menu with the careful deliberation that would be more fitting for someone who's disarming a bomb, flipping from one page to the next after reading each and every word.
Cocking her head slightly, she flicks her gaze between him and the door and sighs. "I don't think they're coming," she says.
He peers up from the top of the menu and gives her one of his rare smiles. "I'm inclined to believe this is their thinly veiled attempt at throwing us together, Doctor," he says.
"I think we know each other too well for honorifics, don't we?" she smiles. "Unless you'd rather I call you Alpha Tiberius Crivelli?"
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