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The sound of Elena’s pounding heart is so loud in her ears that it nearly masks the sound of footsteps approaching her booth. The Green Room is perpetually freezing, probably to combat the amount of sweat its members work up within the sprawling, luxuriously decorated space.
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I’m turning off Interstate 87 into a quiet rural town in Upstate New York when my phone starts ringing. I know who it is, but I chance a look down anyway, and I’m met with the smarmy face of my ex-boyfriend. It’s been two weeks, and I wish he’d just give it a rest. This was the last time, the last goodbye, and I need him to know I am never crawling back to him. I’m past the point of
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I tilted my head back and drained the last sip of my energy drink, determined to catch every drop. It had already been a long night of studying for my Psychology of Human Behavior midterm, but I wasn’t even halfway through the readings I’d put off for most of the semester. We were being tested on the unit about attraction and sexual behavior, which was apparently much less exciting when half the material involved hormones and neurotransmitters. I’d chosen the
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“True love could be one sip away!” lied the handmade sign in the window. Anna knew it was a lie for the same reason she knew everything inside New Moon Apothecary would be hokey, woo-woo bullshit: magic wasn’t real.
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Adeline Sedgley has been kidnapped. She supposes her captor might not see it that way, as Mr. William Pemberton—her best friend Caroline’s eldest brother—has always been a contrarian. But what else would one call it? Mr. Pemberton found her at the inn in Gretna Green, bundled her into this godforsaken carriage (which was no mean feat—she is not a small girl), and has been glaring at her ever since. Two hours into their journey back to London, the carriage bouncing
