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I thought I rab onto Rush’s arm to steady myself

“Gia? You okay?”

When I opened hbehind I slapped ed to mumble a coherent word “Bathroom”

Rush guidedhallway and tried to come in with me He looked as nervous as I felt I putinto the little rooivesickness and my nerves”

“You sure?”

I nodded and forced a half-assed s down the closed door, I sat on the floor with my head in my hands and started to hyperventilate

It isn’t possible

My eyes are playing tricks on me

Hormones It’s definitely the hormones

I’d only seen Harlan that one night—o now

But Rush’s brother looked so much like him

Those green eyes

Perfectly tanned skin

Square jaw

Impeccably coiffed hair parted to the side

But he wouldn’t have been at The Heights

Rush and his brother despise each other

There is no way that he ca out in the Hamptons

And…the guy I’d been as named Harlan, not Elliott