Dinner was a lot of fun. Once the squealing was out of the way, Bria and Liz became interviewers- quizzing Aric an Alec on a hundred different things. I enjoyed it because a lot of the things they asked were questions I hadn’t gotten around to asking them yet. Liz was warm and comfortable with them faster than I could have ever hoped and led the barrage of questions, while Bria watched me a lot; her quick green eyes absorbing every aspect of my body language. She currently had her eyes narrowed at Aric’s arm around my waist. I know it came from a place of protectiveness. These girls were more of sisters to me than my actual sister was. I caught her eye and raised an eyebrow at her. Bria, what’s on your mind? You’ve been glaring Aric down for the past twenty minutes. Oh, I didn’t reali

