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"No You don’t get to Rachel et to be all Nova-y, and I get to stay the hell away from you for the next six months"

"Well, your tactics have worked pretty well, considering this is the first ti you and we’re three months into the trip"

Did he have to look wounded? Like I’d done soot here last week"

His forehead puckered, and I fought back ers like I had ere together He wasn’t mine to touch He wasn’t mine in any form of the word

"Last week? Funny, that’s when Leah’s roommate…" His eyes widened to a nearly iether, did you?" The elevator dinged open behindthe ca our direction I needed space, and I needed it now

"Wait" He lunged forward, stopping the elevator door with his arm "I don’t understand"

"Paxton will fill you in," I said and pushed the close-door button

"Paxton?" He shook his head again

I blew out a frustrated sigh, realizing there were other students in the elevator "Paxton Wilder Your best friend Come on, Nova--"

"Landon," he snapped "I’ve never been Nova to you Not in that way"

You’re like a supernova--an explosion so bright no one can see past you, I’d told him once after he’d won a competition But likeentirely different Noas Casanova…and no longer mine

"What ere to each other sure as hell doesn’there isn’t some act of fate, or God It’s an act of Paxton If you want answers, go to hiain"

"You think that’s possible? That I’nore you?"