“You will? But you just said—” “I know. I changed my mind. I want to do it.” She blinks and smiles up at me, and my heart fills with something that feels like lava. “But I have one condition.” “Name it.” I grin. “I get to walk out of here today with your book.” “My book?” she asks, hoping she heard me wrong. “The book.” I smile as I watch two pink splotches hit the apples of her cheeks. For a beat, there’s nothing but silence. Painful, thick silence. And then slowly Annie’s sweet smile tilts ever so slightly into a devious grin, and I realize I just got epically played. “You’ve got a deal,
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