*CUPID'S MATCH BOOK 3* FIRST DRAFT
For the third time, follow Lila into a world of cupids, arrows, betrayal, and love, in the Watty award winning series with over 50 million reads online.
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I push Valentine away from me – hands hard against his chest. He lazily steps back a few paces – his demeanor quickly shifting from the fiery intensity of a few moments ago, to something colder.
"Well, if it isn't the Minotaur snooping around people's minds, yet again..." says Valentine – his words are light but there's an edge to his gruff tone. His eyes don't move from mine.
I drag my gaze away, heart pounding, mind reeling.
Venus?! Venus is back?
And...How long has Mino been here?
Mino is leant casually by one of the stone columns at the other side of the temple. His big arms are folded across his chest; his black t-shirt revealing part of the labyrinth tattoo that inks the skin of his shoulder. If he's surprised by either Valentine, my proximity to Valentine, or what Valentine just said – he doesn't show it. He just watches us with the detached curiosity of someone watching a tv show.
I feel like I've been caught doing something I shouldn't have been. Heat floods to my face as his eyes catch mine; and the sequence of events before meeting Valentine here in this temple starts to come back to me.
"You brought me to my labyrinth," I say softly. "I'd wanted to tell you about...him...but..."
Mino nods slowly, an amused glint within the darkness of his irises.
"You couldn't. I wonder if our friend here can enlighten us as to why," he says – voice low. His gaze shifts to Valentine; who turns slowly to meet it. "Hello, old friend."
Valentine doesn't reply. "You invited him here?" he says – throwing me a sideways glance. For a moment I think I catch a hint of surprise in the shocking blue of his irises.
"Yes."
His jaw hardens. He rubs his mouth.
"Well?" says Mino – arching an eyebrow.
Valentine says nothing for a moment. Then he runs his hand over the back of his neck and a smirk begins to tug at his lips.
"I think the reason she's not told anyone about me is because she likes me," he says – a gruff, exaggerated whisper.
A wave of irritation, and panic, and loathing – at Valentine, or myself, I'm unsure - washes over me. Tension coils in my stomach and my pulse quickens.
"That's not true," I say.
Mino's gaze slides lazily between the two of us. He nods. "I think there's something more to it than that." His eyes latch onto Valentine again. "I take it someone from the Oneiroi is helping you enter Lila's dreams?"
The what?
Valentine shrugs, putting his hands into the pockets of his jeans. "I suppose you're going to tell my brothers about me...?"
