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• We were two peas in a pod. Best friends from the moment I tripped a bully about to try to take Nash down. When that same bully came after me the next day, Nash had punched him in the nose. His parents had not been pleased that their five-year-old got suspended, but once he’d explained the circumstances, his father had given him a pat on the back an...
• God, she was beautiful. Even with her midnight hair tangled in a knot on the top of her head and covered in dust.
• Maddie pushed stray black strands from her face. I’d always loved that hair. Raven-black. So dark it almost held a blue undertone, only magnified by piercing blue eyes that saw straight to my soul.
• Holt took a pull on his beer and then set it down. “Okay, Kim and Chris will round us out to an even dozen of new recruits. Anyone else we should think about adding?” “Not Dan and Kevin,” Grae grumbled around a bite of pizza.
• MADDIE PAST