Until she’d met Teddy, no one had ever been able to get to her, because she was Maxine Hart, and she was amazing. Everyone who dared insult her was so far beneath her that they may as well be sidewalk scum under her boots. But oh, did Teddy get to her. He was the only one who’d ever truly bested her, which made him her equal. And since she couldn’t pretend he was beneath her, that meant he had the power to wound her . . . and that terrified her.
