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CHAPTER 71

Maxine's P.O.V.

"You like me, don't you?"

Alph's question hung there, charged with tension I wasn't prepared for. We walked into the forest together, without ever deciding which way it was going to be. Destination after destination seemed a moot point; we were alone under moonlight. The world around us fell silent save the rustling of trees and our footsteps crunching against the earth. Not so my mind, however.

When did I begin to love him? Memory seems to bleed from around the edges, but it is somewhere around Coreen's birthday party. I didn't know him well then, really all that Alph at university, aloof, mysterious. A stupid dare-she'd made the offer without even thinking about it: kiss Alph. And I kissed him. Everything changed after that.

“When I first saw you," I said hardly above a whisper. My voice was so overwhelmed by the wind, which buffeted us around. I could feel the rising color on my cheeks so I was happy that it was dark, and I hid the flushing all over my face. The sil
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