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  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
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  7. 3
  8. 4
  9. 5
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  11. 7
  12. 8
  13. 9
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  15. 11
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  40. 36
  41. 37
  42. 38
  43. 39
  44. 40
  45. 41
  46. Acknowledgments
  47. About the Author
  48. A Sneak Peek of You Will Be Mine
  49. 1
  50. Back Cover

“You’re taking her?” Owen asks.

“No!” I shout.

Evan looks over his shoulder and shrugs. “I like her. I want to keep her.”

I shove his chest with my free hand, but it doesn’t get me anywhere. His hold on my wrist is too tight. “I’m not a damn toy! Get off me. I’m not going anywhere with you.”

“Piper,” Hazel cries.

I thought he was my friend, maybe more than that one day. We had gotten close, he held my damn hand at night.

Wait. He wants me to go with him. Evan coming into the common room was an act, but we weren’t.

Hope ignites in my heart.

“Evan,” I plead, lowering my voice. “Think about this.”

He leans closer and my throat closes up. “I have thought about nothing else since the moment I saw you. The guys are going to give me crap for this, but I don’t care. I’m going to let Caleb finish this, and then you and me are out of here, okay?”

Okay? Is he really asking me if this is okay?

I don’t know what to say. Evan is clearly sick. But he somehow thinks he likes me, and right now that is the only chance we have. Caleb is standing before us with a gun, waiting for instruction.

“Evan,” I whisper. “I don’t want you to hurt my friends. Please.”

“There is no other way, Piper,” he says, stroking my cheek with the back of his index finger.

I swallow down the cringe and force my lips to smile. “Yes, there is. You trusted me with the fire.” That is currently spreading everywhere. “Trust me with this, too. Let them go, and I’ll come with you.”

“No way!” Hazel shouts. “Piper, shut up!”

Oh my God.

I look over my shoulder and widen my eyes at her, telling her to shut the hell up.

“Ignore her, she’s worried about me,” I say, cupping his cheek and forcing him to keep looking at me as he goes to face her. “Evan, for me?”

“He’s not going to fall for that,” Caleb says. He sounds bored, but he continues watching, waiting to see what Evan is going to do.

I’m not sure how far they will let Evan go. Will they allow him to let Hazel and Priya run?

I thought Caleb was in charge, but it’s the guy I thought I was falling for all along.

How stupid am I?

38

Evan

Piper wants me to let her friends go. I want to give her that. I want to give her the world and watch as she burns it to the ground around us.