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with someone else.
    “When do we start?”
    “Whenever you’re done thinking about it,” Alex answered.
    I looked at my now empty plate. The pie just might convince me.

    Emil was lounging in a chair at the end of the hall, reading, as I came out of English, a class I also had with Hutch. I waved at Emil. His lips lifted in a sexy smile as he nodded in my direction. Hutch looked from me, to Emil, and back to me again. “Can I ask you a question?” he asked.
    “Sure.”
    “Is that your boyfriend?” He tilted his head in Emil’s direction.
    I gave a high-pitched, surprised laugh. I wished I could explain my relationships with Alex and Emil that easily. The real answer would be: not-right-now-but-maybe-someday-and-maybe-not-this-life. That seemed complicated to explain, however. “Nope,” I answered. “Just a friend.”
    Hutch glanced at Emil. “I’ve seen him with you a lot. He seems pretty into you. I don’t want to step over a line here, but I’d say he wants to be more than a friend.”
    I smiled, trying to downplay Hutch’s accurate assumptions. “It’s complicated.”
    He nodded. “I bet.”
    Vicki came around the corner, smiling wide at Hutch. He returned her smile and I decided if Las Vegas ever ran out of electricity, Hutch and Vicki could power it with happiness. They mentioned getting lunch again, but I didn’t want to be a third-wheel. I told them I had to study, but we’d get together another time. They nodded and took off, hands entwined.
    I met Emil at the end of the hall. He was sitting in front of a wall of windows that framed the mountains perfectly, his legs stretched out in front of him, arms behind his head. He smiled up at me. “How was class?”
    I shrugged. “Same as usual. I have a research paper I need to work on.”
    Emil nodded. “I hope you’re not busy this weekend.”
    I wrinkled my brow. “Why?”
    “You have plans.”
    The crease in my forehead deepened. “I do?”
    He nodded his head once. “Uh huh.”
    “With you?”
    “Yep.”
    I grinned and shook my head. “I don’t think I ever actually agreed to the new dating policy.”
    He didn’t move as he answered. “I thought the pie had swayed you.”
    I considered for a moment. “It was good pie.”
    “So you’re open to dating again?”
    I snorted a laugh. “I’m still deciding whether I can handle dating you both.”
    Emil sat up slowly. “You say you don’t want to date because you’re not ready to choose. I think you don’t want to date because you’re afraid of your feelings, and what you might find out.”
    “I am not!” I said defensively. “I just don’t think it will work.”
    “You haven’t even tried it yet.”
    Well, there was that.
    “Plus,” Emil went on, “it might help you have more flashbacks. That way, you’ll be able to see what happened for yourself instead of having to trust us and our memories.”
    He made an excellent point. Emil would be a good lawyer. I had no doubt many Daevos members probably were. They’re all masters of manipulation. “Do you and Alex really think you can refrain from killing each other if we do this?”
    Emil stood up, putting his hands in his pockets as we walked across campus. “At this point, anything is better than the tension we all constantly feel. Plus, you’re going to have to choose eventually. You should make an informed decision. Alex and I both agree on that.”
    I narrowed my eyes at him. “That’s very diplomatic of you two.”
    He grinned. “Just trying to make your life a little easier.”
    “Maybe I don’t have to choose. I can just ride things out until I die, then I won’t remember this stuff in my next life and won’t have to worry about choosing between you.”
    Emil pressed his lips together. “You’ll have to choose eventually, Evie. At some point, in one of your lives, you’ll have to choose. Given what’s happened in this life with your powers, I wouldn’t count on dying as a way to get out of this