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me one of your
other cooks is here and you have the night off. We’ll have our
first date then. You can pick me up at the motel.”
    “I’m not coming inside.”
    He’d let that comment slip out. He’d meant it
to be an admonishment to himself. By the way her eyes narrowed and
her lips curved up, he knew he’d revealed more than he’d
intended.
    “I’m not inviting you in,” she said. “While
we’re dating, no sex.”
    “We’re not supposed to have sex outside the
Run anyway.”
    “Ha. We’re not supposed to date either. But
in this one thing, I’ll stick to the rules. No sex.”
    He narrowed his gaze. Whether she meant to or
not, she’d just issued him a challenge he was having a very hard
time ignoring. His tiger wanted to rise to that challenge, to
seduce her and take her and make her his mate. His tiger didn’t
give two fucks about Nick’s desire for peace and quiet, not when
such a deliciously tempting tigress was so close.
    She rose, and he followed, still working to
resist the call of his tiger.
    “I’ll see you at six tomorrow.” She leaned in
and kissed his cheek.
    The soft brush of her lips against his skin
set his blood pumping so fast he saw spots. Every nerve in his body
lit up as her scent wrapped around him, invading him and sucking
away his willpower. He flexed his fingers, so close to catching her
in his arms he couldn’t speak around the need.
    She pulled back, smiled, and left him
standing there, his body hot and tense and his soul more than a
little desperate.
    Dating. No sex. But chemistry that robbed him
of speech.
    What the hell had he just agreed to?
     
     
     

CHAPTER SIX
     
    Tiana paced the small motel room as she
waited on Nick. Part of her worried he might not show. She’d track
him down and challenge him if he did stand her up, but the rebuff
would hurt.
    Fear lurked beneath her pacing. Fear that she
would fail and the one man she wanted would refuse her. What would
she do then? She simply didn’t want any other tiger she’d ever
met.
    Before Nick, she’d been talking to Elizaveta
about going to a Run in Russia. Maybe she’d have to go through with
that. Meet other tigers. Run in completely different places. And
hope.
    The thought almost brought her to tears.
    She sucked back the emotions because she
didn’t want Nick to show up and catch her being a sniveling, crying
mess over something that hadn’t even happened yet.
    She checked her makeup in the tiny bathroom
mirror to avoid looking at the bedside clock again. “If he doesn’t
want you, Tiana, you will walk away,” she told her reflection.
“And, hey, you might find that despite the chemistry and everything
you’ve learned about him, he’s actually an asshole. You could hate
him after tonight. Stop getting all worked up. You will be fine,
even if this doesn’t work.”
    She gave herself a sharp nod and returned to
the bedroom. She hated this feeling of uncertainty and insecurity.
A little part of her—the part that had worried something was truly
wrong with her before she met Nick—was afraid that if things with
Nick didn’t work, she’d be destined to be alone for the rest of her
life. That maybe something in her really was broken. She wanted to
deny that sneaky, nasty little voice, but it was working with her
insecurities to beat back her confidence. And she detested it.
    “Fuck it,” she growled.
    She’d barely gotten the words out when a hard
knock sounded on the door. Her stomach tumbled in crazy chaos as
Nick’s scent snuck into the small room. She’d been so preoccupied
with worry, she hadn’t even sensed him approach. Shaking off the
mix of fear and excitement, she opened the door with a smile.
    “What’s wrong?” he asked before she could
greet him.
    “What?”
    “You’re upset. What’s wrong?”
    Her stomach did another crazy dance. She
wasn’t sure whether to be annoyed or overjoyed. She hadn’t wanted
him to know she was worried, but the fact that he looked so ready
to leap