Chapter Two
“I should have known my brother would convince me to do this ridiculous dating thing with him and then him not show. Even my brother stands me up, I must really be a horrible person.”
Cali shut off her car and put the keys in her purse. And sat still.
“So, if Max isn’t here, then he won’t know if I don’t go in.”
She would never have signed up for a dating service herself and with him not around to make her go in, she would just go in to work. She dug for the keys in the bottom of her purse when a knock sounded on her window. Her brother waved as he walked away from her car toward the dating agency.
“Crap. Why don’t things ever go my way?”
She watched as Max skipped toward the building, her hatred growing for her only brother. He was ranking right up there with the friends that kept setting her up on blind dates with creeps that didn’t follow through.
“How is a dating service going to guarantee the guy will show up for the date?”
Because her brother was standing at the door staring at her, she climbed from the car and started toward him. He laughed and went in ahead of her. He always thought he had to have one up on her. She reached for the door at the same time a handsome gentleman grabbed for the handle.
“Oh, excuse me, I’m so sorry, please go ahead.”
“No, after you.”
The man held the door open for Cali to go in ahead of him. When she stopped inside the waiting room, her brother was nowhere to be found.
“Figures.”
“Did you say something?”
“Oh, no, well yes I did but nothing important. I was just looking for my brother.”
“Are you here to meet him?”
“Yes and no. He signed me up for this dating thing, I just thought he was going to actually go through it right alongside me but guess not.”
“Well, sounds like you and I are in the same boat.”
“What do you mean?”
“My brother roped me into coming here too and when I showed up he wasn’t here. Granted I got here a little late but I figured he might have waited.”
“Do you think both our brothers are already in there talking to someone?”
“Knowing mine, yes. Well we’re here, should we go ahead?”
“I guess we might as well.”
Cali and the stranger both walked up to the front desk and signed in, then the receptionist gave them both papers to fill out and asked them to have a seat in the lobby and they would be called when someone was available to talk with them.
“Am I the only one that thinks this is a lot of paperwork to fill out just for a date?”
Cali laughed but tried to focus on the papers. She was afraid they would call her before she got them done. There were a lot though, he was right.
“Maybe they want to see how well we do under pressure or if we can follow directions.”
“That mean I should have read the direction page first?”
She smiled when he laughed but before Cali could answer, the receptionist came out of her office to let them both know it would be a while longer. One of their agents had to go home sick but she encouraged them to take their time with the papers and she promised it wouldn’t be much longer.
“I guess if we’re going to be stuck here for a while, we might as well get to know each other, my name is Reese.”
So, not only is Reese cute, he’s very nice as well. And of course, she already knew he was a wolf so that was a plus. Maybe that was the reason the others stood her up. She guessed they were human. Alice should have known better at least. She’d been around her for a long time and knew her entire history, even though she wasn’t lupine herself. It was normal these days to have human friends and with her working at the library, she was surrounded by them daily.
“Hello, did I lose you?”
“Oh shoot, I’m sorry, my mind drifted there for a minute. My name Accalia but most people just call me Cali.”
“Well just Cali, it’s nice to officially meet you.”
“You too.”
She couldn’t help but smile every time he did, it was infectious.
“We should probably start working on these papers before they call one of us.”
Why couldn’t she date a guy like Reese? He was friendly, really cute and he smelled amazing.
“Why thank you.”
“What?”
“You said I smelled good.