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before we sing.”
    Andre watches the band on the screen intently, and I catch a glimpse of his smile before the song is over. He says, “My phone doesn’t have Internet.”
    I’m more than willing to share, and I think I can use this situation to my advantage. I say, “Sure. But for each recording I play, you owe me the answer to a question.”
    Now his smile does appear. “Fine.”
    “Tell me how you got into music.”
    “When I was a boy, my father gave me a guitar and told me it was my job to entertain us at night.” He sweeps his hand around the room. “Where I come from, we didn’t have all the stuff you have.”
    “Do your brothers play anything?”
    “You owe me a video first, but I’ll put it on your tab.”
    I chuckle and marvel at the dimple I notice in Andre’s cheek. It only appears when he displays a full smile. He says, “I have a musical family. We all play multiple instruments and sing.”
    “I’d like to meet your brothers some time. Are you close, like me and my sisters?”
    He nods and asks, “Tell me about what you were like when you were thirteen.”
    It seems like an odd question, and I frown as I try to recall that time. “I was horribly awkward. I had a growth spurt and towered over all the boys.” I cringe. “Be glad you didn’t know me.” We’re silent for a moment, and I say, “Your turn. What were you like at thirteen?” I recall that Tori said puberty is when werebear come into the ability to shift.
    “Awkward too. I was very skinny because I shot up to almost my full height that year.” He pauses, and his gaze is intense, as if he is not sure if he can say more.
    I help him out. “My sister Tori told me what you are. Was that the year you could shift?”
    “Yes. It was also the last year of happiness before our clan fell apart.”
    “Oh, no. I’m so sorry. What happened?”
    “Our former alpha was not very wise with money and gambled away our land. My parents were killed in a battle with a warring clan that took over the small territory we had left. My brothers and I were forced to remain in bear form to survive until we moved here.”
    “You spent almost a decade as a bear?” I ask.
    He nods as he says, “You asked why I don’t talk. It’s because for a long time, I didn’t have to.”
    “Wow.” I imagine reappearing in the human world and experiencing the technology that has happened in the last ten years. “You’ve missed so much.”
    He stares at me for a moment before he says, “I did. But if I didn’t come here, I wouldn’t have met you.”
    I flash to the first day when he matched my step as he walked me to my dorm. I recall the way dream Andre kissed me last night.I don’t know what to say, and my fingernail clicks against my phone when I push the button to play the video again. While Andre watches the song, I watch him and try to sort out what’s going on. My body screams for him as if he’s my destiny, while my head is telling me to stay away.
    We spend the next two hours previewing Jake’s selections, and I ask my questions. Most of the songs are dance tunes, but the last one is a recent hit that made me cry the first time I heard it. It’s about a forever love, and when we sing it, I’m foolish enough to lay my words out there as if they’re mine. I’m even more delusional when I believe Andre does the same. The last line ends abruptly with the word you, and the silence that follows is deafening as we both stare at each other.
    My gaze drops to his mouth, and I take a deep breath. Andre takes one too, and it’s shaky. Maybe I wasn’t alone in my feelings after all. I’m about to speak, when he reaches out his hand and touches my lips with his fingers. He shakes his head as if he doesn’t want me to speak as he traces my mouth with a light touch. It’s sensual, and a tiny noise of desire escapes me.
    I tilt my head up as his finger moves under my chin and along my jaw line. He continues to below my ear and then down the side of