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“I’ll be right here,” he said. “I promise.”

“Good.” She let go of his hands and stood up straight. Then she made sure her dress was straight, and her hair wasn’t a mess. “How do I look?”

“Fiercely intelligent.”

She rolled her eyes. “Just you wait and see.”

Her stomach still turning, her legs still shaking, Isabella turned around and started across the park and toward the eastern wing of St. George’s University. She had been waiting her entire life for this and a little bit of last-minute resistance wasn’t going to change that.

Honestly,if I can tame Duncan the way I have, then I am capable of anything.Now it was time that she proved it.

The End?