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penalty for us meeting is death. Lord Amin warned me about you when I was in Geminay.”
    “He warned you about me?” I said, annoyed at being seen as a threat by yet another boy.
    “Yes, he’s the First Shaman of the House of Picard.”
    “Just what makes you think I’m a Sworn Asset—whatever that is?”
    “Who else could you be? I could feel your power as I was walking down the hall toward this classroom. I could feel your power when you were sitting outside with your friends. I thought it was because you’re the most beautiful girl on this campus, but you’re so much more than that. Lord Amin said the Sworn Asset would be.”
    His words were so surprising that I lost the ability to speak for a few moments. I liked the part about being the most beautiful girl in the high school, though I didn’t believe him. He must not have seen Cosette, Parisa, and Gail. The rest sounded like a lot of pretty fiction designed to manipulate me.
    I jerked my chin. “And you expect me to believe all that just because you say it?”
    “It happened right in front of you. You know what you did to Martin at the movies and to me just now in the classroom. Can’t you trust your own eyes?”
    I hadn’t trusted my own eyes for months, not since the diamonds showed up. And I certainly wasn’t going to trust someone who clearly knew Martin.
    “Okay, fine, you’ve had your laugh at my expense. When you and Martin put your little pea brains together to make up this story, did they overheat?”
    “For your information, Martin and I are not close, though clearly you know him well from the way you were hanging on him outside a little while ago.” Sean tipped his head toward the steps at the far end of the building. “We need to get out of here. My car is in the parking lot. Let’s go.”
    My jaw dropped at the suggestion. Ditching school? He wanted us to ditch school on top of getting us sent to the vice principal’s office? I would no more ditch school than I would walk around with a bra tied around my head. And I certainly wasn’t going to leave campus with a boy I had just met who claimed that we were part alien.
    My irritation flared at him. “Don’t you think I can see that you’re working with Martin to get me expelled? What did he have to do to get you to go this far?”
    “This isn’t about Martin! This is about us—you and me! We’re in danger. Why do I have to keep saying that? Don’t you understand English?”
    “Apparently not very well,” I snapped.
    “We were never supposed to meet. Our Houses are Sworn Enemies. The jewelry was meant to keep us apart. You can’t deny what just happened in there.”
    “Watch me.” I poked his chest with my index finger.
    The second my finger touched Sean, a loud crack that sounded like a blast from a shotgun filled the corridor. Sean flew from me, crashing into the door of a classroom of students who were having their first trigonometry class. The voices inside the room hushed and the math teacher’s eyes were wide when he came to peer out the window of his classroom door.
    I stared at my hands in shock. I had barely touched Sean.
    He shook himself off. “You’re going to have to learn to control that. Now let’s go.”
    “Hey, hey, hey!” shouted a security guard who had just come up the stairs. He was a big man, broad of shoulder and thick of thigh. Heavy, wraparound sunglasses circled his small, shaven head. “That’s enough out of you!” he bellowed at me as he rushed toward us. His cry echoed and rolled like thunder down the long, empty hall. “Darcy Hinson, keep your hands to yourself,” the guard bawled even more loudly. Then he glared at Sean and lowered his voice. “The vice principal is waiting.” He clamped his hand down on my shoulder. He was wearing black leather gloves and dug his fingers through my thin shirt into my flesh. The sensation was heavy and tingling. “Let’s go.”
    Teachers were coming to their classroom doors and looking out,