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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine

?Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

PROLOGUE

Ten Years Ago

Sherh School, Shermont, North Carolina

Senior Class Yearbook Exit Interview

Question 1: If you had to do high school all over again, would you?

Macon Saint: You’re kidding ht? No

Delilah Baker: Is this a trick question? No

Question 2: Who is most likely to succeed from our class?

Delilah Baker: Oh, come on Everyone knows it will be Macon Not that he’ll deserve it

Macon Saint: Me And Delilah Baker She’s like a barnacle; she’ll cling until she gets where she wants to go

Question 3: Who do you ith you if there’s a hostile alien invasion?

Macon Saint: Delilah Baker She’d yap so much and so loudly the aliens would turn around and flee

Delilah Baker: Macon Saint I’d toss hi for my life

Question 4: Most h school, and did you enjoy it?

Delilah Baker: Graduating Yes

Macon Saint: Pro bit

Macon Saint was the devil Anyone with a lick of sense knew it Unfortunately, when it cah School seeave theod I suspected that was the truepeople into starry-eyed fools when they ought to know better

Not that I could blame theel—so beautiful you wondered if it truly had been sculpted by the hand of God, black hair so thick and glossy itover it Yes, he was that pretty The only one who could rival him for sheer physical perfection was my sister, Samantha