*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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My sleep is restless, disturbed by dark dreams. Every creak in the house, or whisper of the wind outside, seems to wake me.
I don't know what it is that wakes me this time, but, as I lie in Cupid's four-poster bed, I can't get back to sleep. The shadows around Cupid's room bring me back to the gym earlier today. My mind recalls the smell of the undead, and Valentine's shocking blue eyes as they fixed on me.
Just thinking of him sends an unwelcome shiver through my body.
What does he want with me?
I think of that note that Mino found on the dead body – the dead body that has probably now come back to life...
I need your heart for what I'm to do.
A part of me wishes I was in my own bed, not tangled in Cupid's expensive red sheets that smell like him and the summer. Being here makes me think of him. And thinking of him makes me feel sad – because all of this might have been a lie. And Cupid knows it too.
But then how can my feelings be a lie? I think of the moment I first met him – the way my body seemed to yearn for him before I ever even knew him. I think of the way the air between us seems to crackle with electricity. I think of the way his kiss sets my skin on fire.
I sigh heavily.
He's my match. He has to be. Right...?
Realizing I'm not going to get to sleep anytime soon I sit up. I pad over the cream carpet, feeling the soft fibers between my bare toes, and peer out of the window at Cupid's moon lit grounds below.
I want the answers that tomorrow will bring, but I dread them too. Valentine seemed to know something that me and Cupid didn't – and I'm sure it is about the match. I remember Cupid's and Cal's faces when Cupid told us Valentine had been missing since before we met.
Could Valentine have had something to do with me and Cupid getting together? Has this whole thing been orchestrated by him?
The thought makes me feel sick. My heart pounds at my chest, and my stomach is a tangle of nerves.
I think about calling Charlie, to talk to her about all of this. But it's late, and she'll either be asleep or working on that list of missing cupids for Crystal. If she's doing that she'll be with Cal. And I don't know why, but I don't want Cal to know what's going on between me and Cupid right now.
Everything is different now.
His words come back to me. His eyes, silver and filled with passion.
Everything is different now.
The buzz of my phone on the bedside table jolts me back into moonlit the room. I frown. Then I head back to the bed and sit down on the edge.
