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punched the bastard’s face in, if I’d gotten the chance. He was a dickwad, and you’re gorgeous.”
    Kris laughed. “Nick didn’t even recognize you up there on the stage, you know.”
    Nick crossed his arms over his chest. “I just never would have picked Lilly as the type of girl to get a nose job.”
    That comment made her bristle. “I didn’t choose to get a nose job. This isn’t the first time my nose has been bashed in.”
    The smile left Kris’s eyes. “Oh…right. We heard rumors you’d had an accident after graduation. We would have visited you in hospital, but…”
    “It was no accident. Someone pushed me down the stairs in the dorm.”
    Nick and Kris looked at each other. “Who pushed you, sweetie?” Kris asked.
    Lilly shrugged. “Never found out.” She looked up at them again and gritted her teeth. Mortification made heat rush to her cheeks. “This is perfect, isn’t it, you two finding ‘Dumpster Girl’ in the trash?”
    “Lilly, don’t. Don’t call yourself that,” Nick said. “We never called you that. We weren’t even sure if those rumors were true. I always thought that girl in your dorm, Sonya Sanford, I think that was her name… I thought she made those rumors up.” He turned to Kris. “You know the girl who was in your History of Music class with you? Really tall? She seemed to have some grudge against Lilly for something. Insulted her a few times when I was around, and I told her what I thought of her.”
    Kris looked at his feet.
    Lilly made her voice as icy as the ground beneath her. “Didn’t you date Sonya Sanford at one time, Kris?”
    He blushed. “Once. It was one date. I had no clue she was your…enemy…when she asked me out.”
    He looked up again and into her eyes, and any feelings of resentment evaporated. A person could never stay angry with Kris. He had the kindest, sunniest personality of anyone she’d ever known. Not to mention a face like a fallen angel, a gorgeous golden tan, and pretty, fair hair. Lilly shook her head, wishing she wasn’t so damn attracted to both of them. It made her vulnerable and embarrassed.
    Nick turned back to her, his hazel eyes full of sincerity. From a distance, his eyes had always looked dark brown to her, but up close, they had flecks of green and gold. “Kris wouldn’t have dated Sonya if he’d known she was spreading stupid gossip about you.”
    Lilly folded her arms. “Yeah, well, the gossip was true. I was found in a Dumpster the day I was born. And Sonya works here at Venus Girls with me. She’s the one who threw me in the trash just now.” A buzzing filled her throat as she spoke, and there was a kind of odd hum to her words followed by a tremendous crash. She started and turned to see all the trash cans had toppled over at once. At the same time, with an explosive bang and sudden darkness, the nearest streetlamp blew out. Randomly, a bunch of white petals fell from a tree nearby.
    Flower petals falling from trees, in the dead of winter…again? Bizarre.
    Lilly’s heart thundered against her ribs. “What the hell just happened?”
    Nick and Kris look at each other again. These two men could communicate with each other just with their eyes, no words needed. That was how it had always been. They shared the effortless communication of lovers and soul mates. Lilly remembered that Kris had once told her he even had a bit of a psychic connection with Nick. She felt a tug of longing and the ache of envy.
    Suddenly, it was all too much. Tears formed in her eyes, and she brushed them away angrily.
    Kris wiped a tear from her cheek with his thumb. “Anyone who judges you based on something that happened when you were a newborn infant isn’t worth knowing, sweetie. You should know that. Hey! You must be freezing in that outfit, even with my coat. Here, let me heat you up a little.”
    He gave her one of his boyish smiles that produced the sexy dimple she’d once adored.
    When Kris hugged her, she had to stifle a