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from water polo
practice. Over the last few weeks, Brody and Nix had bonded over their love of
water sports. “When he gets his mind set on doing something there’s hardly a
way to stop him,” he answered and motioned to Nix. “It’s way more fun to sit
back and watch.”
    Mina rolled her eyes and picked up the
poker from the floor, stashing it in a corner of the room.
    “Yay, the weapon of decapitation has been
dispensed with. Now we move onto business,” Nix said happily.
    Mina put her hands on her hips and tilted
her head. “What are you talking about?”
    Nix started toward the open doors that led
into the library. When he saw all the books on the floor, he looked surprised
and entered. He began to pick up random books and flip through them, ignoring
her question.
    Brody followed Nix into the library and
looked at the mess. “Got something against reading?”
    “No, I’m just alphabetizing,” Mina
answered quickly, knocking a pile of books over. The pile fell sideways, and the
top one slid across the floor into Brody’s foot.
    They both reached for the book at the
exact same time, and their hands touched. She inhaled deeply and held it as a
whiff of his shampoo washed over her. He smelled so clean. Her heart pounded in
her chest. She had almost forgotten what Brody smelled like.
    “I’ll help you.” He pulled gently on the
book, and she let him have it. He walked over to a semi-empty bookshelf and placed
the book upright.
    Nix flipped his book closed with a loud
thud, looked between Brody and Mina, and announced loudly, “I’m hungry. Anyone
want any food? No?” He answered for them before they could respond. “Good, ’cause
I wasn’t going to make you anything anyway. So if you’ve got something to say
Brody, you should say it now. Before I finish eating whatever sandwich I can
make out of their leftovers.”
    Brody’s cheeks flushed. Was Brody here to
see her? Was this his idea? For some
reason, she’d believed Nix was the one behind their sudden arrival on her
doorstep.
    Brody looked even more handsome when he
blushed. Was that because of her? “Uh yeah, so about the real reason I asked
him to come here with me.” Brody scratched the top of his blond head, messing
up his sun-kissed locks.
    “Why did you need Nix to come here with
you?”
    “To be the first through the door, if you
decided to attack us when we broke in, of course.”
    “Of course.”
    “No, I only asked him because you two
seem to have grown close. And he swore up and down that you two weren’t an
item. When he heard my plan, he said he would come with me just in case you
turned me down.”
    “Your plan?”
    “Yeah. There’s this thing at my parents’
country club.”
    “I like things.” Mina rushed the words out,
anticipating where the conversation was headed, then inwardly groaned at her
childish answer.
    Brody laughed. “I’m glad you like things . I like these things well enough,
if someone I like is willing to go too.”
    “And you think this person that you like
would like going to this thing ?” Mina asked coyly. She chuckled
at their verbal game. Flirting with Brody Carmichael was thrilling.
    “Yeah,” he breathed out softly, stepping
closer. “That’s why I’m here. To ask this person that I like to go to this thing .”
    “Oh, well, in that case, Nick is in the
kitchen,” Mina teased, jumping back as Brody made a playful punch at her arm.
    “That’s not funny,” Brody challenged.
    “Yes, it was,” Mina laughed, “and you
know it.”
    Brody grinned and stepped closer. “Yeah,
you’re right it was funny.”
    When their laughter died down, she had a
moment to contemplate. “But why?” Mina immediately hated herself for doubting
his motives. It wasn’t that she didn’t believe him, but more that she wanted to
make sure he wasn’t under any Fae influence.
    It was the wrong thing to say. His face
fell, and he looked irritated. “If you don’t want to go, you can just say so.”
He turned