If Coraline was insistent on finding out why she should stay away from Bishop, he might have to use some of his more unpleasant abilities to make her forget all about Bishop and himself. If he thought it would work, Aidan would just avoid Coraline, but that sounded like that would make her more eager to look into what was going on.

"Nurses hours make it tricky to have a lot of close friendships," Aidan said. It wasn't the whole truth, but it was close enough. Trying to fit in though, you couldn't completely isolate yourself so he was fairly good acquaintances with people at work and around the neighborhood.

"I hang out with some people at work now and then though and I couldn't ask for a better friend in Josh."