ELOISE POVI had managed to avoid Alexander for almost six hours, it shouldn't have been difficult. The house was large enough for two people to disappear from each other, and I had made sure to stay upstairs whenever I heard his footsteps in the hallway. After everything that happened that morning, I wasn't ready to look him in the eyes and pretend the kiss hadn't affected me, because it had.I could still remember the feel of his hand against my cheek, the controlled restraint in the way he kissed me, and the way his eyes had looked at me afterward. He had warned me that it was a bad idea, and somehow that only made me want him more.I was beginning to hate myself for it. I finally decided that the only way to get him out of my head was to distract myself, so I took my laptop downstairs and settled on the sofa in the living room. I had barely managed to read through a few lines when I noticed the weather outside.The rain had started sometime in the late afternoon, soft enough that
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