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And me. Please bring him to the gala. It might be our
last…”
What?
My back straightened. “Sorry?”
Her throat bobbed, as she swallowed hard. “I mean,
Maddox never attends any dinners or parties that we invite
him to. Maybe you can convince him to come to this one.
Please.”
I mulled her words over, chewing on my lip. She was
asking me to do a hard task, and I worried I was about to
cross over an invisible boundary between Maddox and I.
“Maddox is stubborn. What makes you think I can convince
him?”
Her eyebrows quirked up; a small smile painted on her
pale face. “Because you’re Lila.”
Because you’re Lila.
Because I was Maddox’s Lila, she meant.
WITH MY HEART in my throat and sweaty palms, I waited for
Maddox to come home. Things were good enough between
us, after the time in the library. But I knew something was
still wrong with the way his eyes would cloud over. Some
days, he was quieter than usual.
But it wasn’t the peaceful quiet, the type that soothed
you.
It was the type of silence that waged war inside him. I
could tell he was battling something fiercely, and he wasn’t
letting me stand next to him, to fight with him.
I told myself that maybe he really was worried about his
exams.
But then I realized… Maddox was distracted. He was
drinking more, smoking more cigarettes than usual. That
was my first clue that something was terribly wrong. Most