Match Me If You Can by Anna Staniszewski

Author:Anna Staniszewski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2016-11-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Jealousy,” Connie said, plopping down on Marcus’s couch. “It works every time.”

Marcus sank into an armchair and gently placed his grandpa’s dating guide on the coffee table. “Not according to this book. It says jealousy is a negative tactic that you should try to avoid.”

Connie rolled her eyes. “That book is also about a million years old. Trust me. If you want to fix Albert up with your sister, you need to make him and Peter jealous of each other.”

“But we don’t even know if Ann-Marie is supposed to be matched with either of them.” Until last night, Marcus would have said there was no way his sister and Albert were compatible, but after how Ann-Marie had acted, he wasn’t sure what to think anymore. Maybe Connie really did know what she was doing.

“It doesn’t matter,” Connie said. “It seems like she could like both of them. So let them fight it out, and see which one wins.”

Marcus sighed. It seemed cruel to pit the two guys against each other, especially when one of them was afraid of the sound of his own voice. But maybe Connie had a point. Maybe the reason Ann-Marie and Peter hadn’t been matched yet was because Ann-Marie had feelings for more than one person.

“Or you could just let me zap someone,” Connie added. “That’ll solve everything.”

“It won’t!” Marcus insisted. “If we pick the wrong guy, it’ll all fall apart anyway, and they’ll all be miserable.”

“Okay then,” Connie said. “Let’s go with my plan.”

“Fine. We can give it a try. But how do we get the two guys to fight over her?”

Connie grinned. “I have some ideas.”

The gleam in her eyes was a little unnerving. Marcus enjoyed his job, of course, but for Connie, it was clearly more than that. She didn’t seem to care how anything actually worked. She hadn’t asked Marcus any questions about his powers or about other matchmakers. He hadn’t told her about Lena being a soul collector, since he wasn’t sure he could trust her with the information. Really, he didn’t know if he could trust Connie at all.

“You haven’t matched anyone else, have you?” he asked.

“Don’t worry about it.” Connie waved her hand, as if she were trying to pull a Jedi mind trick on him.

“What does that mean? Have you matched people or not?”

She rolled her eyes. “You said you didn’t want to know.”

“No, I said you shouldn’t do it at all!”

But Connie was already focused on listing ways they could make Peter and Albert compete for Ann-Marie’s attention. “A duel could work, but that’s a little clichéd.”

“A duel? Like with swords?” Marcus said.

“Or pistols at dawn. Some people find that kind of thing romantic.”

Ugh. This was not helping. And the longer Albert went without a match, the more messed up the balance of the universe would get. Add that to all the other supernatural jobs that weren’t getting done because of the power outage and, well…Marcus didn’t want to think about it. The idea was too overwhelming and scary.

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