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“I’m not. And even if I am, it’s fine. It’s been a while since you joined us. Tonight we celebrate Vivian!”

“Celebrate what?” I asked, my brain growing foggy.

“Celebrating your SSG mission,” Kiera said. “What should we call it?”

I shook my head. “You seem more excited about it than I am.”

“That’s how it is.” Kiera waved a hand. “When it was my turn, I was so nervous. There wasn’t room for any excitement.”

“It’s normal.” Audri bumped shoulders with me. “I felt the same with my License to Kiss.” She told me about her sumo wrestling with Remi.

“My mission was called Opals are Forever, and Michelle was From Iceland with Love,” Kiera said. “And Natalie had The Man with the Golden Angle.”

I couldn’t hold in my grin. “A ninety-degree angle is pretty hot.”

Audri tilted her head and considered me. “Your mission should be The World is Not Enough or A View to a Kill.”

Arrow’s kiss resurfaced in my head. “How about A Kiss is Not Enough?”

“Something you need to share?” Amusement gleamed in Kiera’s eyes.

“We kissed once,” I admitted.

“How was it?” Kiera asked.

“Exceptional.” Heat bloomed in me just remembering that moment.

“We want all the sexy deets.” Audri wiggled her eyebrows.

I rolled my eyes. “I don’t know the details about the ‘mission’ yet.”

The mission needed a purpose. What would it prove?

“That can come later,” Audri said.

Kiera refilled her wineglass and topped mine off too. She lifted her glass. “Tonight we’re going to let everything go and just be happy, okay?”

“Okay.” We clinked our wine glasses.

I couldn’t help but see love beaming from Kiera. It was contagious. Love could change a person inside and out.

“It’s time for your reading, girls!” Audri shuffled the cards again and spread them out on the rug. “Just a warning—I’m not a psychic. I’m following directions from this booklet and using my intuition to help with the interpretation.”

Kiera reached for a cheese cracker while I tried the apple tart. I needed something sweet to contrast the recent bitterness in my life.

“Each of us is going to pick a card and see what message it has for us.” Audri nudged me. “You get to go first.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re the only one who’s unattached right now. We’ve got our men, but the world is limitless for you.”

“I don’t define my world by a man.”

“Neither do we,” Audri said. “But they help us see our potential and therefore, expand our world. You’ll understand soon.”

I didn’t know what she meant. I was still irked at Arrow for making me believe something that wasn’t true. And that stupid clown from yesterday had terrified me more than I’d like to admit. So my mood was all over the place.

I inhaled a breath.