Free Grim Offerings (Aisling Grimlock Book 2) by Amanda M. Lee Page B

was expecting some … special attention,” I said. “Then she locked me in the locker room with him and I was stuck there all night. Oh, and he was naked. She took his clothes.”
    “Did he hurt you?”
    “No. He was a wuss. When my father and brothers found me the next morning, though, it wasn’t pretty,” I said. “I think they would have killed him if they had the chance. The cops were called. Angelina denied everything. Shawn took her side because he was hoping he would still get some action.”
    “Well, that was a bit much,” Griffin said. “How did you retaliate?”
    “What makes you think I retaliated?”
    “I’ve met you.”
    “I put a sonogram picture in her locker and made sure everyone knew that the janitor was the one who knocked her up.”
    Griffin shook his head. “How was that fair to the janitor?”
    “I admitted what I’d done before he got in trouble,” I said. “It was just ten minutes of hilarity.”
    “And then what happened?”
    “We just kept going after each other,” I said. “The final straw was when she went after Cillian.”
    “I don’t understand why he dated her.”
    “She’s pretty,” I said. “She convinced him that she was a good person.”
    “And then she cheated on him?”
    “Yes.”
    “And you’ve been fighting ever since?”
    “Yes.”
    “What stories do you think she told Maya?”
    “It doesn’t really matter,” I said. “She has no reason to lie. The truth makes me look just as bad. She’ll just leave her part in the whole mess out of it. I’m not exactly proud of everything I did.”
    “Do you regret any of it?”
    “Nope.”
    Griffin blew out a sigh and rested his chin on top of my head. “Maya will figure out what Angelina is on her own. I’m sorry this happened, though. I had no idea this would blow up.”
    “It’s fine,” I said. “I probably deserve a little ire. I did some truly awful things to Angelina.”
    “It sounds like you two did some truly awful things to each other,” Griffin said. “I remember teenage girls in middle and high school. The things you two did to each other – that locking-you-in-with-a-teenage-boy thing notwithstanding – don’t sound any different from what the girls in my school did to each other.”
    “Yeah, but I’m betting the girls in your high school aren’t still doing them,” I said.
    “Probably not,” Griffin conceded. “I can’t fault your loyalty, though. You love your brothers, and Angelina hurt Cillian. I have a feeling your brothers would kill me and hide the body if I did something to you.”
    “Aidan was making plans before we found out Maya was your sister.”
    Griffin reached his hands down under my rear and lifted me up to the couch, settling me on his lap and nuzzling his nose against my cheek. “I would never cheat on you. I hope you know that. I don’t do things like that.”
    “Okay.”
    “And you wouldn’t cheat on me, right?”
    “No way,” I said. “I would never find another guy as hot as you.”
    “Oh, you’re so sweet,” Griffin teased, brushing his lips against my jaw. “I didn’t know you could be so sweet.”
    “I’m a very sweet person.”
    “I think you are,” Griffin said, shifting our bodies so we could stretch out on the couch. “I think you’re a rampant pain in the ass, but you’re also sweet.”
    “I’m not really sweet. You know that, right?”
    “You are,” Griffin said, tickling my ribs. “You’re so sweet I think you’ve earned a reward this evening.”
    “Wasn’t that the massage?”
    “Oh, sweetheart, that was just … foreplay.”
    Well, the evening was looking up.
     
    “I DIDN’T say that the butt patting was erotic,” Jerry said, striding into the room huffily. “I said that it could be construed as erotic. That’s not the same thing.”
    “It’s not erotic.”
    “It is if you do it right.”
    “I can’t believe we’re still … .” Aidan pulled up short, and when his eyes met mine I could almost see the