Chapter 220

{Harper's POV}

"Do you work here?"

The words came out before I'd fully decided to say them, disbelief doing most of the talking for me.

Tyler leaned against the counter, entirely too relaxed for someone standing behind a register in a store this small. "Sometimes." He shrugged, easy, unbothered, the same careless little smile he used to wear right before saying something designed to gut me. "Just