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Tonia didn’t answer at first Then she raked her nails through her hair, as if that could cal to be honest"

"If you’re not interested--or there’s someone else--there is, isn’t there? Should’ve known the women of this country wouldn’t let you wander around unattached"

Balthazar nodded and tried not to think of Skye "Will you tell h school--really, esture that seemed to take her in, head to toe "Do you know, I lost fifty pounds the year before I cas But nothing ever changes"

He was too fanize it in another "You’re not the person you were before I’e Mature Grow up" It was a journey Balthazar would never be able to take; no matter how many centuries he lived or how"Trust the person you’ve become Take pride in it And see who chases you"

Tonia finally suidance counselor instead of a history teacher"

"You never know" Before fate was done with hiht have to beco slower, alhtly, and the roo beah school auditoriuhter echoed froroup of students ca even as he did so that he would see Skye there

She stood at the edge of the group, tethered to them only by Keith’s ant dress than the showy stuff ht, her dress appeared to be sone and rose, made out of fils bare while wrapping her body in soft petals Her dark, burnished hair was gathered into an artfully messy tail that fell to one side of her neck There was no pretending that she wasn’t the aze locked with his In that instant, he saw just how much she didn’t want to be with Keith … how she’d dressed for him, so that he would see her and want her

And he knew she sa badly he wanted her

The moment between them was broken when Keith towed her out onto the dance floor Within seconds, they were only one of theaardly out there, Keith half talking to his friends over her shoulder as if she weren’t even present

Balthazar rerand Autuirl like this, not souy who should be with her … the one who should dance with her… God, anybody else but Keith Kraraceful than her lump of a partner would let her be

But he didn’t mean that He didn’t want her to be with "anybody else" He wanted her to be with him

The rest of the dance was torture He had to confiscate soarettes from a few juniors out back, and summon the willpower to toss theotten the picture, but a couple of students, including Madison Findley, asked hih he was a teacher Balthazar instantly said no One of the final couples to arrive was Craig Weathers and Britnee Fong, which ht She didn’t see after they came, she let Keith lead her off the dance floor and out of the auditoriu out back to talk Or et a lot done in a car