*CUPID'S MATCH BOOK 2* FIRST DRAFT
Lila receives an ominous Valentine's Day card.
Cupid & Cal are keeping a dark secret.
Fate is being interfered with.
And a sadistic, and extremely powerful banished cupid is intent on stealing Lila's heart. Literal...
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Dad's sat at the kitchen table when I enter the house, nursing a coffee at his laptop. He looks up and smiles when he sees me in the doorway.
"Been out with this Cupid fellow again?" he asks. He raises a dark eyebrow – then shakes his head. "Cupid...what a ridiculous nickname...I don't understand you kids."
He goes back to typing as I grab a glass from the cupboard and get myself some juice from the fridge.
"I saw Charlie, too," I say. "You still working?"
"Have to balance these books before tomorrow," he says.
He pulls a face but I see in his eyes that he's glad to be back in an office job again. I grin then head back to the door. It's good to see him happy again after losing my mom.
"Lila..." he says suddenly.
"Yeah?"
Dad takes a deep breath, color filling his cheeks. He runs his hand through his messy black hair. I look at him in confusion.
"I...I have a date on Friday night. With Sarah...the doctor from the hospital..."
A grin widens on my face; Sarah is the woman that Cupid and Cal introduced him to after the battle – a potential match for my dad after the rules of love changed forever.
"So...I...uh...I might not be home Friday night," he says hurriedly.
I roll my eyes.
"I know you've been seeing her, dad...you don't have to get all weird about it..."
He exhales, a sheepish look on his face.
"So, you don't mind?"
I walk over and kiss him on his forehead.
"Course not," I say.
Then I head out, and up to my room to call Charlie.
I want to fill her in on the whole Valentine situation.
***
I wake up with a start in the middle of the night. I blink – confused.
Why did I wake up?
I think there was a noise.
I cast my eyes around the shadows in the room. My pulse is racing. I feel like something's wrong.
There's another thud outside my window and I jolt upright.
Valentine.
Cupid's words come back to me.
If Valentine has escaped...this could be bad, Lila. Really bad.
What if he's found me?
I take a moment, breathe in deeply, and calm the beating of my heart.
