Earthbound Angels Part 1: The Heartthrob Fallen Celestial Stories Collection
ahead with what you were saying."
    "Oh, never mind," Raven said, waving her hand
dismissively. "It's not important, anyway. What I wanted to ask you
about is Erick's wedding. You're his Best Man, aren't you?"
    "Yes, I sure am," Simon answered, smiling, even
as he began to feel like he needed to take care about what he would
say next. If Holli and Dreama had hit it off from the first, Holli
and Raven did not. Upon knowing about Dreama's humble background,
Raven had acted snobbish, and had petulantly declared that she
wasn't someone worthy of a billionaire like Erick to a select few.
Noone had to tell Holli about this, because she already was
sensitive enough to know. But when Erick noticed, the look on his
face was enough to tell that Raven would never be in any if his
lists. Not even of his least favorites.
    "Well, I thought I would help you out and go as
your date, since I know you don't want to be hounded by all of
those single women that are sure to be there. Just let me know when
you have all the details on the date and time so I can have a new
outfit to wear."

Chapter Seven
    SIMON STARED AT Raven for a few moments more
before he was sure she actually said what she had said.
    And then he would have wanted to laugh, but he
instead put what remained of his tasty sandwich down on his
plate.
    There was no way Raven was going to be his date
to the wedding.
    How long was this nasty business going to last?
If he only knew what Dreama actually felt about him, things would
have been different.
    Raven had always felt herself to be in
competition with her younger sister. There had been some issues in
the beginning when Simon and Dreama had first met. Raven had been
jealous that he and Dreama had hit it off and it had been a bit of
a problem.
    In fact, Simon hadn't seen Dreama very often at
first because of the way Raven reacted -- and because something
always "happened" that would eliminate either one of them in any
event when they could have been together. When he learned that
Raven had been manipulating arrangements so that schedules would
not permit he and her sister would not be in one place at the same
time, especially when the event had something to do with the firm,
he knew he only had opportunities to act freely with Dreama
anywhere wherein Raven would definitely not be there, like events
arranged by other people and other friends.
    He definitely didn't understand what was going
on in Raven's head. Of course, there hadn't actually been anyone in
his life for her to be jealous of until he had met Dreama. On the
other hand, he had never given her cause to think anything else
between them could be more than... well, friends. Although, come to
think of it, they weren't really friends. Raven was a lawyer, too,
and she was actually intelligent and smart. They had discussed
cases many times. But they hadn't really been personally close. She
might talk about personal happenings in her life, but he never did
unless it had something to do with the firm.
    He had dated his share of women, but no one had
hit him like Dreama and he had never even taken her out on a date.
He definitely had never dated Raven. But... there were those
instances when they were together in one place and she would call
it a date when she talked to other people. He only had heard about
this recently, when colleagues had begun kidding him about dating
the senior partner's daughter.
    But he already had plans for pursuing Dreama by
that time that he took care not to aggravate Raven until he was
sure about how he stood with her younger sister.
    He had been hoping to make his move on Erick and
Hollianne's wedding. Dreama would be there, and he could ask her
out. It would be the perfect way to spend some time with her so
that she might consider actually going out on a date with him.
    Dreama was going to be Holli's maid of honor, a
fact that did not escape Raven's notice. Raven wasn't even included
in anything that would put her remotely in the "in circle" that
included

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