OE

It was the sound of my world collapsing. Casey stared at me

ptain I had spent a year tutoring in philosophy via email

on, whose shirt I had unbuttoned, and who

ed beet red, then drained to a ghostly white

g back and forth in the tiny

How could something so coincidental, so ab

okay?" Casey asked tentat

d with a desperate plea. "Are you sure? Are you one

two years! I'd recognize Donovan Carlisle's face even if it was burned to ash! He has a sca

dsome face flashed in my mind. Yes. Th

. Everythin

k onto the bed. I buried my face in

ed with my former "employer." I hadn't just kissed

t the fury he must have felt, ordering his assistant to hunt

kissed him is the same Chloe Miller who tutored him for a year?" Casey fin

ed hop

hot guy you were kissing

hopeles

ether for a year, had our first (and likely

d then... she bu

her. I was about to di

ard that tears came to her eyes. "It's just... this is better than

drama. I just wanted to b

and threw it at h

er laughter, though her shoulders were still shaking.

I said, flopping onto the bed an

e good news is, he doesn't know who you are. As long as you d

to find someone, could he really fail? I rem

you know someone named Emmett Gra

s Donovan's gofer and e

. He had already sent

ld already picture myself being caught by Donovan Carl

lp me. From now on, I'm a ghost. I can't go to class, I can't

y panicked face a

t up with an