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  Still, even though my mind reeled from that, I managed to squeak out, “I have some money—not much, but …”

  Griffin smirked, then shook his head. “I don’t want your money.”

  For some reason that made my stomach feel funny. I guess because of the way he said it. And the way he looked at me when he said it. It pushed my pulse into over-drive and got my heart pounding.

  “Then what?” My voice hitched. “What can I do?”

  A sardonic grin played on Griffin’s lips as he eyed me. Then he lifted his chin and challenged. “Kiss me.”

  My stomach fluttered. “Wh—what?”

  Griffin’s eyes twinkled. “You heard me.”

  I stared at him. He had to be kidding. Had to be. Only he didn’t look like he was kidding or sound like he was kidding. He looked and sounded amused, teasing, but still, serious. Like it was all funny to him—getting Aiden Hank’s girlfriend all worked up and sweating—but he’d let Aiden off the hook if I did what he said. Those were his terms. He had offered me a deal. Only … it was weird.

  “You,” I swallowed, feeling slightly dizzy, like maybe this moment wasn’t really real. Like maybe I had fainted from fright when I first started talking to The Griff and now I was hallucinating or daydreaming or something. “You—you want me to kiss you?”

  He set his jaw, but he was still smiling. “Yeah. Kiss me and I won’t kill your boyfriend.”

  A strange feeling washed over me—a tingling combination of excitement and horror. I backed away and leaned against the lockers behind me for support. I was all wobbly and sweaty and shaking as I tried to get my brain to actually work—to think. “Um…”

  Really? That was all I had to do? Kiss him and Aiden was off the hook? It didn’t seem possible. Or right. There had to be more to it than that. After all, I wasn’t exactly Miss Sexy; far from it. Boys didn’t even usually notice me. Not that I was ugly, I guess. Aiden said I was “beautiful.” But then, Aiden was my boyfriend. And sweet. The Griff wasn’t either of those.

  “I don’t understand.”

  Griffin shot me this adorable lopsided grin. It got my heart all confused and fluttery. “Yes you do.”

  Mmmmm.

  My pulse convulsed into a wild frenzy, my mind too. I bit my lip, trying to figure out the catch. There had to be one. Had to. Though Griffin was known as a troublemaker at our school, he was cute; adorable even. There was a certain “type” of girls that were always hanging on him—a type that was not at all like me. They were loud and forward and experienced with boys. I wasn’t like that. At all. And I wasn’t the type of girl that boys pined after. I was “nice” and “caring” and sure, maybe on a good hair-day, “pretty.” But that was about it. No way were boys lining up to kiss me. I doubted they even thought about me. So no, I didn’t get it. What was going on?

  It had to be something slimy.

  “That’s all I have to do?” I said skeptically. “Kiss you—nothing more?”

  Griffin raised his eyebrows, his lips curling into a grin. “You can do more if you want.”

  Jerk! Humiliated, I started to slink away.

  But Griffin grabbed my arm, gently pulling me back to him. “Geez, I was just messing with you, Grange.”

  Grange? He knew my last name?

  His eyes danced as he leaned in close, close enough his warm breath tickled my neck as he asked, “So, we have a deal?”

  I backed away from him, trying to think. It would get Aiden out of trouble and it was just one little kiss. But … it was with a delinquent.

  Then again, my best friend, Jazz, was always saying I needed to loosen up and walk on the wild side. Of course, Griffin Piper was way more wild than what Jazz had meant. Jazz had meant wear bright purple rather than pastels. She didn’t mean date the school’s bad boy.

  But …

  But nothing! Aiden would get his sweet little face smashed to bits by The Griff if I didn’t do this. I couldn’t let that happen.

  I took a deep breath, terrified. What would The Grief Master’s kiss be like? I was a little bit curious, but mostly scared. I’d only kissed two boys in my entire life. I wasn’t experienced by a long shot and I was still slightly nervous that I couldn’t trust The Griff—that it wasn’t really just a kiss he wanted, though it did seem he had only made the deal to make me squirm. I mean, he just seemed entertained—like it would be fun either way: to bash Aiden’s face in or make his girlfriend freak out.

  I nodded that we had a deal, then I gulped—big.

  Griffin noticed and grinned. “Don’t look so scared, Grange. I’m a good kisser.”

  That in no way calmed my nerves. It only made my face burn and my cheeks turn a million shades of red, but somehow I was pretty sure that’s what he wanted.

  His eyes twinkled as he watched me prepare for the kiss, eyeing me wipe my sweaty hands on my jeans and pump my fists a couple times, trying to psyche myself up. Finally, I puckered my lips and leaned in for the kiss.

  Griffin watched me with quirked eyebrows, looking amused. Finally, he gave a soft laugh. “Not here.”

  His eyes danced as I blinked up at him in confusion. What was he talking about? Not here? Where? Panic rushed through me. What exactly had I agreed to?

  Griffin gave another soft laugh. “In room 204. At three.” He leaned in close again, playing with a tendril of my hair. “You’ll survive. I promise.”

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  Note: The book You Were Mine was co-written with Melanie Marks and based off her His Kiss series. If you read that series, don’t buy You Were Mine as you’ve already read it.

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