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thought into her head. At the same time , she thought, I wouldn’t have ever believed that there were druids until I’d had to run away from their creepy culty “circle.”
    It wasn’t too long before the woman returned and then asked Aislinn to come with her. She led the way back through the door next to the desk, passed a set of doors on the wall that shared a corridor with the restaurant. Waiters and waitresses were going in and out of the doors with trays and food, presumably room service for the hotel. The woman led Aislinn to a similar set of doors farther down the hall. “This way,” she said with a smile, then hesitated and turned to look at Aislinn. Her eyes flashed with curiosity. “I’m sorry I just have to ask, how do you know, uh, Cullen?” Aislinn noted the strange emphasis the woman placed on his name. It was almost as if Aislinn shouldn’t have been allowed to use it. The tone reminded Aislinn of a parent pointing out to a child that she should be more formal when speaking of adults.
    Aislinn had really hoped that question wouldn’t come up. She cleared her throat. “He helped me out last week. Uh, he thought the guy I worked for wasn’t very nice and suggested I get a job elsewhere.”
    The woman looked at her as if she didn’t believe what Aislinn said, but didn’t press the issue farther. She just turned around and led the way through a door at the end of the hall into an office. There was a man in a gray suit shuffling paperwork at a desk. He looked up and motioned for Aislinn to come in. The woman immediately headed back out the door and closed it behind her.
    He looked up at Aislinn with a piercing dark stare. Aislinn stared right back. He looked older than Cullen, but again there were those strange dark brown eyes and dark hair. Liam was much paler in skin tone than the woman who had brought her here or Cullen, as if he spent all his time in doors behind a desk. He seemed to be trying to see through Aislinn, but she put up her standard wall and waited for him to be done appraising her and say something.
    “Meghan said that Cullen sent you here with a note for me.” Aislinn stepped toward the desk and handed Liam the note that Cullen had written. He looked it over and then looked up at Aislinn with more of an interested gaze than before. “Okay, so do you have any experience with waitressing?”
    “My last job was tending bar. But I’m a quick study,” Aislinn offered.
    The man nodded and looked back at the note. It was pretty obvious that this kind of thing didn’t happen often. Somehow it made Aislinn feel good to know that Cullen didn’t go around getting every woman he met a job. “Well Aislinn, I do have an opening for a new waitress. When can you start?”
    There wasn’t even an interview really. Aislinn filled out the paperwork, was given a tour of the place by Meghan, and was told what to buy as a uniform. That evening she went to the store and spent the last of the rent money on appropriate clothes for her new job. As she did it she wondered what her landlord was going to do when she didn’t have rent on time. She shook her head. There wasn’t anything she could do about it at the moment. One step at a time , she thought.
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    Cullen had been into Taigh-O  sda several times throughout the week. It was his favorite place to eat so no one thought anything about it. But really he had been looking to see if Aislinn had shown up to get that job. He had been more than a little annoyed when she didn’t show. Muin , he swore to himself . If she wants to work for some jerk who tries to rape her then let her. She’s just some random human female. Why the hell do I care?
    Jenna showed up at the den late that week. She was excited and waited all afternoon for Cullen to manage enough time to meet with her. For his part he had been finding as many extra things to do as he could come up with. The woman was driving him crazy. Ever since he had agreed to the mating she had