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"How high?"

He chuckled "Higher than yours"

"Noait a , because I’d knocked ot?"

"I don’t," he said, "but Ms Malone told ht behind Tia’s I actually got higher than Tia on the verbal"

I stared at hiain

I tried to make his crazy face with one eyebrow up and the other down I couldn’t do it, so I lifted and lowered ertips

"Don’t do that to your face," he said

"Sawyer," I said, exasperated, "you have grades and scores that high and you want to go to culinary school ? And you don’t see anything wrong with this picture?"

"Of course not," he said "It’s never wrong to pursue soer

"But you don’t love cooking," I pointed out "You don’t bu new recipes, do you? You happen to be a vegan, but just because you have special dietary preferences doesn’t obligate you to open that kind of restaurant There ans in the Tampa Bay area, but there are plenty in the world, and they’re not all going to culinary school and opening vegan restaurants I think you’ve only come up with this idea because you work as a waiter, you know restaurants, and you’re scared you’ll fail at soe Just apply for college Apply to Coluly sound "I would never get in to Columbia"

"How do you know if you don’t try? It sounds to et a need-based scholarship On the essay part of the application, tell them a sob story about your dad and your situation"

"My situation?" He gave uess I mean you should tell them the truth"

He shook his head His hair ainst the pillow "I don’t have the e applications"

"If your scores are that high, Ms Malone will find you sohtfully at my face His eyes traveled down to my breast He touched me softly

I shuddered

He slid his phone from the table on his side of the bed and peered at it, probably checking the tio before we are discovered," he said in a voice from a cheesy movie Then he laid his phone aside and rolled so that I was underneath hiain

"Katherine" He kissed my lips "Beale Gordon"

"Yes?"