RUBY'S POV
The car rolled smoothly into the driveway, coming to a stop in front of Dominic’s sprawling mansion. I stared at the grand building, and my nerves crept in again. My experience the last time I met his daughter was still fresh in my mind; It has just been yesterday. That encounter hadn’t exactly gone well. She’d been cold and distant and clearly not impressed by me.
I took a deep breath. Ariel was protective of her father, which I could understand. But that didn’t make the idea of seeing her again any less intimidating. Would she even want me here?
Was I really terrified of a seventeen-year old teenage girl?
Dominic’s voice broke into my thoughts. “You’re quiet. What’s on your mind?”
I turned to him and forced a smile. “I'm just thinking about Ariel. I’m not even sure she li
