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Thanks for being my teacher. I learned a lot from you.” She had learned she wasn’t pretty enough or charming enough to tempt Kye into kissing her. She had learned that age mattered much more than personality. “Did you?” he asked, his expression unchanged. “Good. I hope my lessons stick.

That’s when she started crying—not when she’d been attacked, not when she’d been rescued; she cried at the thought of telling her parents. Elsie wanted her mother, wanted her mother’s comforting arms around her. But how could she tell her the rest? She felt so stupid, so helpless.

Mathlete joke: Dear Math, Please stop making me find your X. Just get over her.

Are you Carson Clark’s little sister?”
“Yes,” she said, fighting a blush that threatened to creep back into her cheeks.
“Wow,” he said. Wow. She could eat that word. She had waited long enough for it. Before she could hold the word up and admire his praise, he added, “I suddenly feel old. You were like, what, six when I left for college?