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My Soul to Lose
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My Soul to Lose
Rachel Vincent
TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON
AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY • HAMBURG
STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID
PRAGUE • WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND
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Thanks first of all to Lisa Heuer for the technical
advice and consultation. Without your contributions,
this story would have been impossible for me to write.
Thanks also to my early readers, Rinda, Chandra,
Heather, and Jen. Your opinions and advice were
invaluable, and the story is so much better for them
both.
Thanks to Mary-Theresa Hussey and Natashya Wilson
for so much enthusiasm and encouragement, which
keep me smiling.
And thanks finally to everyone out there reading about
Kaylee for the first time. I’ve poured my heart into her
continuing story, along with some delicate pieces of
my own soul, and I’m so very honored and excited that
you’ve decided to give her a chance. I hope you like
her as much as I do.
“Thanks for the ride, Traci!” Emma slammed the back
door, then opened it again to free the end of her filmy
red skirt as her sister leaned out the open driver’s side
window.
“Be ready to go at eight, or I’m leaving you here.”
Em gave a mock salute, then turned toward the
mall entrance without waiting for the car to pull away
from the curb. We would be nowhere near the parking
lot at eight o’clock. Finding a ride home would be no
problem—Emma could cock one hip and smile, and
guys all over Texas would throw their car keys at her
feet, if that’s what she wanted.
But sometimes a ride was more fun, because she
could flirt with the driver. See how much he could take
before his concentration wavered and he had to force
his attention back onto the road. She’d never actually
caused a wreck, but Em went a little further every
time, ever eager to push the limits of… Well, of
anything.
I went along for the ride because it was a delicious
rush of power and freedom—living vicariously
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through Emma was usually more exciting than living
my own life for real.
“Okay, Kaylee, here’s the plan.” Em stepped up to
the glass doors, and they whooshed open. The artificial
cool inside was a mercy on my damp skin and
overheated cheeks; Traci’s car wasn’t air-conditioned,
and September in the Dallas metroplex was still hot
enough to make the devil sweat.
“So long as it leads to Toby’s public humiliation,
I’m in.”
“It will.” She stopped in front of a mirror built into
the wall of the main walkway and her reflection
grinned at me, brown eyes sparkling. “And that’s the
least he deserves. You really should have let me key
his car.”
And I’d been totally tempted to. But I was less than
a year from getting my license and couldn’t shake the
certainty that if we keyed someone’s fresh paint job—
even if that someone was my rat of an ex-boyfriend—
new-driver karma would come back to bite me on the
bumper.
“So, what are you going to do? Push him into the
snack table? Trip him on the way into the gym?
Unbutton his pants while you’re dancing, then scream
for help?” I wasn’t too worried about homecoming-
dance karma. But Toby should have been…
Emma turned from the mirror, her pale brows high
in surprise. “I was just gonna stand him up, then make
out with his best friend on the dance floor, but that last
one has real potential. Maybe we’ll do both.” She
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