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Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.
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Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.
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Picture yourself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The wind is whipping your hair. The sun is setting. You long, body and soul, for one thing. One person. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn. Who's there?
I remembered a voice. Jameson Winchester Hawthorne.
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Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.
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Grayson told me. βI wanted her to be you.β
βDonβt say that,β I whispered.
He looked at me one last time. βThere are so many things that I will never say.
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Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.
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I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.
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Sometimes you have an idea of a person β about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.β
He looked at me like the act of doing so was painful and sweet. βIt was never just the idea of you, Avery.
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The answer to your first riddle,β I told him. βIf yes is no and once is never,
then the number of sides a triangle hasβ¦ isβ¦ two.β I drew out my reply, not
bothering to explain how Iβd arrived at my answer
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But this... us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jameson looks at you.
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You hated the idea of me.β
βBut not you. Never you.β
βI wanted Eve to be different,β Grayson told me. βI wanted her to be you.β
βDonβt say that,β I whispered.
He looked at me one last time. βThere are so many things that I will never say.
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You're honorable, Avery Kylie Grambs. Once you were with me, you were with me. You love me, scars and all. I know that, Heiress. I do.
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Four Hawthornes, four suits. Avery wore black.
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What if he hates me?"
"No one could possibly hate you, Xander," I told him, my heart twisting.
"Avery, people have hated me my whole life." There was something in his tone that made me think that very few people understood what it was like to be Xander Hawthorne.
"Not anyone who knows you," I said fiercely.
Xander smiled, and something about it made me want to cry. "Do you think it's okay," he said, sounding younger than I'd ever heard him, "that I loved playing those Saturday morning games? Loved growing up here? Loved the great and terrible Tobias Hawthorne?
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Aching for them, I wondered who had made Skye so desperate to be the center of someone's world that she couldn't even love her own children, for fear they wouldn't love her back enough.
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Someone told me once that fortunes like this oneβat a certain point, it's not about the money, because you couldn't spend billions if you tried It's about the power." I looked down. "And I just don't think anyone should have power like that, certainly not me.
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Is this all just a game to you?β
βEverythingβs game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.
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The coin landed. βTails,β I said. βI kiss you.β I wrapped my arms around
his neck. I pressed my lips to his. And this time, the joke was on meβ
because I wasnβt playing.
This wasnβt nothing.
This was the beginningβand I was ready to be bold.
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Sometimes you have an idea of a person β about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.β
He looked at me like the act of soing so was painful and sweet. βIt was never just the idea of you, Avery.
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You made me hungry," I told Jameson. "for everything. I want the world now." I held his gaze in a way that dared him to look away. "And I want it with you.
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Like the sun and the moon
I loved her.
Saint Avery.
Until death and beyond.
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But mostly, I canβt hate him, Avery Kylie Grambs, because he brought me you.
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Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.
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You are fiendish, Avery Kylie Grambs. As far as distractions go, that one wasn't even fair."
I shrugged. "I play dirty.
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Forty-six point two billion dollars, I thought, my heart attacking my rib cage and my mouth sandpaper-dry. Tobias Hawthorne was worth forty-six point two billion dollars, and he left his grandsons a million dollars, combined. A hundred thousand total to his daughters. Another half million to his servants, an annuity for Nan...
The math in this equation did not add up. It couldn't add up.
One by one, the other occupants of the room of the room turned to stare at me.
'The remainder of my estate,' Mr. Ortega read, 'including all properties, monetary assets, and worldly possessions not otherwise specified, I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.
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Stop looking at me like that," I told him sternly.
"Like what?" he countered.
I folded my arms and stared him down. "You turn on the charm when you want something."
"Heiress, you wound me." Jameson looked better smirking than anyone had a right to look.
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I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.
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Heiress, before we start spilling secrets, I'm going to need you to promise me a plane.'
'A plane?' I gave him an incredulous look.
'You have several.' Jameson smiled. 'I want to borrow one.'
'Why do you need a plane?' Grayson asked suspiciously.
Jameson waved away the question.
'Fine,' I told him. 'You can take one of my planes.' Yet another sentence I never thought I'd say.
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Avery Grambs is not the result of infidelity on the part of our father, who was faithful to his beloved wife, our mother, for the entirety of their marriage.
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Everything is a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.
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Promises mattered to Grayson Hawthorneβand so did Avery Kylie Grambs. The girl who had inherited their grandfatherβs fortune. The stranger who had become one of them.
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I held up the coin. It's not the disk," I said. But sometimes you have to improvise. My heart was racing. I was vibrating with the same energy I'd heard in his tone. And like Jameson, I loved it. My voice cracked. It means something. Jameson shot me one of those devastating, crooked Jameson Winchester Hawthorne grins. What are you saying, Heiress? I tossed the coin into the air, and as it turned, I thought about everything that had happened. All of it. I'd found Toby. I knew my mother's secret. I understood, more then ever, why my name had caught the attention of a billionaire who'd only met me once. Maybe that was all there was to it . Or maybe I was one stone ment for twelve birds, most of them still undiscovered. Like Jameson had said, this was Hawthorne House. There would always be another mystery. Like me, Jameson would always be driven to solve them. The coin landed. Tails, I said. I kiss you. I wrapped my arms around his neck. I pressed my lips to his. And this time, the joke was on me-because I wasn't playing. This wasn't nothing this was the beginning-and I was ready to be bold. -Avery Kylie Grambs (The Hawthorne Legacy)
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I brought you into this world, Avery Kylie Grambs.
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Everythingβs a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide
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You said that after the shock of your decision wore off, giving away the money became a game to the Hawthorne brothers?" Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win. - Avery Grambs
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