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The other students’ attention wasn’t on me just because I was Shaw’s best friend My dad was the bassist for Des He’d been so and tauard to keep the idiots in their place because there ouy everyone thought was unobtainable She was also the editor at one of the two azines she owned

And I was their princess The daughter the world thought they would never have I’d been their miracle, and everyone stopped to stare, no matter where I went There were some nutjobs out there who even wanted to touchmy hand for a few minutes could help them conceive

I wasn’t a gift froh hell and had the help of the world’s leading fertility specialist to help her and Dad get pregnant with o because she always got a haunted look in her eyes when she talked about it,that had happened before I was born

My brother was the true nant with hiot h for them But Mason surprised the hell out of everyone three years later There was no fertility specialist, no daily shots, no stressing over if the pregnancy test was going to be negative that nancy with him was fairly uneventful, whereas hers with htmares for years

Shaw glared at the group of girls standing closest that were gawking at us “Take a picture, bitches You can finger yourselves to it later” She flipped theh mine as alked to our shared locker

It was technicallytwo separate lockers e only needed one and mine was closer to our first class of the day

“How pissed do you think Cannon would be if we stole his car and drive over to Malibu at lunch?” I asked her as I opened the locker and exchanged

She snorted “I don’t think there is a word in the English language for how mad he will be But that never stopped us before” She took out her chemistry book “This is why I always carry my set of keys to his car” She winked as she backed away “Meet me outside after second period”

Grinning, I waved and started down the hall toout my phone, I texted Luca a kiss

Chapter 2

Violet

As soon as the bell rang at the end of second period, I grabbed my t

hings and headed for the nearest exit I got to the student parking lot without anyone stopping otten into Cannon’s car with no one even noticing if it weren’t fora familiar dark ponytail about to disappear into a black car

Arella turned, and our gazes locked My cousin grinned “You saw nothing”

“Same to you, cuz,” I said with a wink