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"The memory of Daniel's voice sounded hollow in her mind. I get to live forever, he'd said. You come along every seventeen years. You fall in love with me, and I with you. And it kills you. Her head throbbed."

"He looked over at her, with the saddest expression on his face, as if he had lost something precious. This was the Daniel she knew, though she couldn't explain how or from where. This was the Daniel she...loved."

"Luce had no doubt Cam would be waiting for her today. She didn't want to see him. Not at all. Thinking about his fists slamming into Daniel made her stomach lurch. But it was her fault they'd fought in the first place. She'd led Cam on-and whether she'd done it because she'd been confused or flattered or the tinest bit interested didn't matter anymore.What mattered was that she be direct with him today. "

"He took of his glasses off and slid them inside his jacket, then turned to look at her. His gaze caught hers, and Luce watched as his eyes widened and then quickly narrowed in what looked like surprise. But no--it was more than that. When Daniel's eyes held hers, her breath caught in her throat. " This was when Luce first meets Daniel and she's immediately attracted to him and gets a feeling she has met him before.

"Every humid breath Luce took stuck in her lungs. Just breathing at Sword & Cross made her feel like she was sinking into quicksand." Luce didn't like Sword & Cross already she didn't felt comfortable and didn't want to be there.

Luce had her first day at Sword & Cross School and she wasn't the only new student. There were three other new kids and she finds herself making awkward eye contact with one of them.

"Even after all the time they'd spent together these past weeks, she had not yet begun to glimpse the truth that lay behind their attraction." He knew the truth about their relationship but she didn't.