“I haven’t even told you the best part.”

Halcyon sucked in a breath. “You test-drove him already?”

“What? No! Of course not. He asked me to be his date to the charity event.”

Halcyon’s eyes widened. “Oh! At the LeDoux estate.”

“Why do you think I said yes? This is my only legal opportunity to search for the ring there. Good God, I’m not ready to start dating and I’m definitely not ready to test-drive someone. But they can’t kick Luke out without looking bad so they’ll tolerate me because of him.”

Halcyon tilted her head to the side and studied Marina for a bit. “You might not be ready to start dating but you’re attracted to Luke.”

“Well, yeah. Sort of. I mean, he’s an attractive man and he helped Avery. It’s hard not to like him.”

“I like him too. But like has nothing to do with attraction.”

“Can we please not talk about that now? There’s another situation I need to tell you about.”

She filled Halcyon in on her stalker and her sister grew more agitated as she explained. When she was done, Halcyon threw her hands in the air.

“What the hell were the gods thinking? Aren’t they supposed to have everything figured out? They’re doing a crappy job of running all of this if they didn’t anticipate this happening.”

“We didn’t anticipate it happening.”

“We didn’t know the enemy could pop down to earth like Alexios.”

“True. So they’re behind the eight ball, which isn’t good, but it doesn’t change reality. This guy is probably lurking everywhere, just waiting on me to find the ring. And when I do…”

“He’s going to make his move.”

“And if he gets the ring, then it’s all over.”

Halcyon frowned. “How do we know that Alexios is the good guy? I mean, we only have his word. What if he’s working for the enemy?”

“I don’t think so. Unless any of the others can send lightning down to earth, I have the singed carpet to prove that Zeus was listening to Alexios when he first met with me. Besides, you’ve met him and you’re a human lie detector. Do you think he’s working with the enemy?”

“I would first like to point out that Alexios is only half human, so that might imply that my detector is only half effective. But you’re right. I think he’s exactly who he says he is. All that stuff with the condo and the socks and reading romance books is just too in-depth to be playing a role. Besides, I know acting when I see it.”

Marina nodded. “So I need a plan. For if I find the ring, I mean.”

“Right, because Stalker Boy will be lurking. Okay, what we need is a decoy. You’ll have it with you at all times and when you find the real one, you hide it under a boob and have the decoy in your purse. No one will look under your boob.”

“Except you, apparently.”