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not.” I was hoping he would. “I don’t have anything to wear to dinner, though.”
    “You have a whole closet of clothes upstairs,” Aidan said.
    I glared in his direction.
    “Good,” Griffin said. “Why don’t you go up and get dressed? You have twenty minutes. I’ll wait for you here.”
    Well, that was it. There was no way out of this. I was officially going to have dinner with Griffin’s sister. May the gods have mercy on my poor, tormented soul.

Eight
    “I think my skirt is too short.”
    “Your skirt is fine.”
    “No, it’s too short. I look like a streetwalker.”
    Griffin sighed, exasperated. “I happen to like it. I wasn’t sure you had legs.” He thought he was teasing me, relaxing me, but he was driving me insane.
    “What is that supposed to mean? Are you making fun of my Converse?”
    “Will you please calm down?” Griffin asked. “You’re … unraveling.”
    We were in his Explorer, sitting in the parking lot of a kitschy restaurant in downtown Ferndale, and I was just about at my wit’s end. Dead bodies don’t bother me. Absorbing souls doesn’t bother me … well, most of the time. Meeting Griffin’s sister was almost more than I could bear, though. “She’s not going to like me.”
    “Why do you think that?”
    “Women don’t like me,” I said. “They either look at me as competition or the obstacle standing between them and one of my brothers.”
    “Well, you won’t be in competition with each other and she’s not going to date one of your brothers,” he said. “It’s going to be fine. I’ve already told her all about you. She thinks you sound fascinating.”
    “You’ve told her all about me? All?”
    “Not all,” Griffin clarified. “Your family’s secret is safe with me. I told you that.”
    “What did you tell her I do for a living?”
    “I went with your antiquities lie,” he replied. “That seemed as good an answer as anything else – and it’s kind of true.”
    “And she’s a nurse, right?”
    “Yes.”
    I chewed on my lower lip as I stared out the window. “She’s not going to like me.”
    Griffin growled. “Okay, we’re done with the self-pity, Aisling,” he said, throwing open the driver’s side door. “Get out and get moving.”
    “I’ll just wait here.”
    “No, you won’t.”
    “But … .”
    “Get out now.”
    I was out of options. I reluctantly pushed open the door and jumped out, smoothing my black skirt and glaring down at my uncomfortable heels as I shuffled them against the pavement. Griffin kept one eye on me – in case I ran – and another on the parking meter as he fed coins into it.
    After a few moments, I realized I was still standing by myself, and when I lifted my head I found him watching me with a curious look on his face. “What?”
    “Nothing,” he said. “I’ve just never seen you like this before. I’m not sure how I feel about it.”
    “What do you mean?”
    “You’re usually pretty sure of yourself,” Griffin said. “That’s one of the things that drives me nuts about you, but it’s also one of the things I really like about you. I just don’t understand why this is such a big deal.”
    I narrowed my eyes. “Really? Are you just saying that or are you playing a game?”
    “I’m really at a loss.”
    “Fine, I’ll lay it out for you,” I said. “If your sister doesn’t like me, it’s only a matter of time until you dump me.”
    Griffin moved his jaw, opening and closing it, but no sound came out.
    “That’s what I’m worried about,” I said.
    “Baby, I don’t know where you would get an idea like that,” Griffin said. “It’s not true, though. First, I think Maya is going to like you. Do I think you’re going to be best friends? No. Your life is far too … chaotic … for her to fit into it.
    “Whether Maya likes you or not, though, it won’t change how I feel about you,” he continued. “I don’t understand why you think it would.”
    I faltered. “Because that’s