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"I figured the way you got out of here, I wouldn’t see you until I could get out on my own.”

"That was the initial idea." Evie confesses. "But I... damn. I can’t stop thinking about you." Alec smiles and runs his tongue through his lips. "You can take that smirk off your face. That shouldn’t happen.”

"Why not do it?”

"Do you swear you asked that question?" She crosses her arms. "Forgot everything you did, to make me stay with you? You weren’t able to hear the many no’s I said and it was making it harder and harder. I should hate you...”

"But you can’t." He smiles again.

"No." Evie sighs and sits at the end of Alec’s bed. "I already had you hanging around my head, so Audrey asks me out and gives me her opinion on everything.”

"Did she do that?”

"It did. And I thought it was cute. I love your sister.”

"And amazingly, Audrey loves you too. She never, I repeat, never liked any girlfriends I ever had.”

"I have my charms." Evangeline mocks and shakes her hair red and oddly