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like Marshall fell into the deep end of the righteous indignation pool, and I need to lure him out before he turns into a saint and loses all his charm.
    “I think this falls more under the guise of ethical relativism,” I say. “Gage doesn’t have any problem driving you insane.” I pull him in by the shirt. “In fact, he openly parades your future wife around town like he owns her. Like he owns, you .”
    Marshall clenches his jaw before breaking into a naughty smile. “This might be a good time to let you know I don’t mind infuriating those who take pleasure infuriating me.”
    I jump up and sit on the windowsill, tossing my hair wild in the wind.
    Marshall dives over me, and my back curves out dramatically. His lips fall over mine and I acquiesce to the pleasurable sensation that extends from the portal of his mouth. A loud thump knocks Marshall on the head and he pulls back, stunned, leaving me to plummet out the window. There’s nothing but sky and the black hole of Marshall’s bedroom gaping at me from above.
    I land with a soft whoosh into a pair of strong arms that just so happen to be connected to the boy I’m still very much in love with.
    “Are you all through breaking my heart?” He gives a half-smile, and his dimples explode in concert.
    “Are you all through breaking mine?”
     
     

Chapter 60
    Feels like Forever
     
    Gage drives us down the main thoroughfare that splices the island. I watch from the passenger’s side mirror as the fog lifts her skirt in our wake. We haven’t exchanged two words after I agreed to get in the truck. I’m starting to wonder if we really are irreparably broken—the impossibility finally coming to pass under the duress of my worst nightmare. In addition to being taken by the Counts and losing every region so far in the faction war, Chloe has hijacked my boyfriend. It’s safe to say, everything has fallen spectacularly to shit.
    Even my mother taking a break from Tad is depressing in its own right. If they do split up, I’ll lose Melissa, Drake and Ethan—not that Drake and Ethan were such prizes, but still. And what about baby Beau? Will I still be his aunt? I guess I could be through my friendship with Brielle. But everything that felt so secure only a few weeks ago feels like it’s teetering on the edge of oblivion. Chloe walked Gage and me to the brink and now we’re about to free-fall into a bottomless pit that leaves you with a broken spirit, your shattered heart in pieces.
    Gage pulls off on a narrow dirt road that I’m all too familiar with—the Black Forest.
    “Turn around.” I hate it here. Last fall Carly Foster and Carson Armistead stranded me in this very same location. Then Ezrina showed up and officiated it as the worst day ever by hacking off my arm.
    “I want to show you something.”
    God—isn’t that just what they said?
    “Turn the car around. I wanna go home.” And by home, I mean Marshall’s, even if he did send me sailing out of a two-story window on my very first day as his live-in girlfriend. He’s going to make a lousy husband if he keeps launching me off tall structures. He knows full well I’m afraid of heights.
    Gage presses his lips together in discontent as he parks and kills the engine.
    “Are you really afraid of me, Skyla?” He reaches over and picks up my hand, rubs a small circle on the soft part of my palm, and I melt at his simple touch.
    “Did you give Chloe a ride home from Emily’s party?” I ask point-blank. I’m not quite ready to graduate to the butterfly room-used-condom conversation—not sure I’ll ever be ready for that one.
    “Chloe asked for a ride and I said no.”
    “She never came back to the party.” I’m not one hundred percent sure but I’m betting.
    “She mentioned something about a supervising spirit and walked into the woods.” He tilts his head, full with discontent at the accusation. “I wouldn’t give Chloe a ride home. She’s bent on ruining what we have.” His