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same school for at least ten years. I know who you are.” Not to mention his rake’s grin was plastered on every cover on the magazine rack.
    Alex lifted a dark brow. “I think I would’ve remembered you.”
    “Oh, really? Do you remember the time you and your friends used my gym bag as a football, passing it in the hall until it burst open and my sports bra flew out and tripped a girl on crutches?”
    “No. I don’t recall that.” He was smart enough to look uncomfortable.
    “Remember when you finally gave me an invitation to your summer pool party, only to ask me to serve you and your guests like I was your personal waitress?”
    He looked away, over her head. “I’m afraid I was a rotten kid, Lucy. It was my brother who was the saint.”
    Lucy knew that Will Sinclair had not just been working as a reporter in Durnama, but had been opening one of his schools there.
    How he and Alex could be related was beyond her. Though twins, the brothers were nothing alike. One fair and gentle, one dark and a notorious rogue. She didn’t remember much about Will from school, but she did recall he had never been part of Alex’s clique of spoiled snobs. That alone made him admirable in Lucy’s estimation.
    “So what have you done to receive the cold shoulder from Clare?” His simmering smile returned.
    “Just breathing, apparently,” Lucy said. “My mom worked for her a long time ago. It didn’t go well.”
    The song ended, but he only tightened his hold. “Just keep dancing. Don’t even think about leaving this floor.”
    She barely came to his chin and had to lean back to look at him. “If you were this bossy with all your cheerleader girlfriends, it’s no wonder they’ve all banded together in mutual hatred.” She flexed her fingers against the smoothness of his dark tuxedo.
    “They’re just angry because they can’t all have me.”
    But Lucy knew those articles had done nothing but hurt his campaign. Was it wrong that it gave her a wicked sense of satisfaction that Alex Sinclair had finally found something he couldn’t buy or charm his way into? While playing for the Warriors, he had won the loyalty of every American man with an eye for the game, and the heart of every woman with a pulse. But the people of South Carolina were obviously intelligent enough to recognize that didn’t qualify Alex for a seat in government.
    “Does your mother still live in Charleston?” he asked as the music changed into a slower tune.
    “No. She’s . . . gone.” The hurt that had once been a scream inside her was now quieter, hushed to a whisper by the passing years. “I moved to Florida the summer before my senior year.” Her mother had met and fallen in love with a man in Tallahassee, and Lucy had finally gotten her young heart’s wish to leave Charleston. “It was a car wreck.” Lucy shook off the melancholy mood that had just enveloped her. “It was a long time ago. Tonight is what matters. And I need to talk to the board members. I’ve got to change their minds about this drastic cut.”
    “Won’t do any good,” he said. “Our previous CEO almost donated Sinclair Hotels into an early grave. My uncle Phillip was generous to a fault.”
    “I’ve always respected that quality about him.”
    “You need to let this go. I’m sure what you do is important, but if Sinclair Hotels’ donation matters that much, then you need to do some restructuring.”
    “Do you even know what we do at Saving Grace?” And did he have any idea how hard it was to ask for money from the same town that had rejected her years ago? And here she was again. A poor girl holding out her hands for charity from her betters. It was like Dickens meets Lifetime. “Did you know in our country, wards of the state are considered adults at eighteen? As soon as they graduate high school, many of them are forced to leave the system. They become instantly homeless. With little help, no life skills. They have a thirty-five percent greater chance