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  Her words spit past gritted teeth. “I. Can’t.”

  And I know with a sick tightening of my gut that she’s not going to last.

  Scanning the activity below and the choppers cutting across the sky above, I make up my mind right then.

  “All right.” I swallow. “Here’s the plan. We separate—”

  “No—”

  “I’ll break cover first. Then, once they’ve gone after me, you head for water. Go under and stay there. However long it takes.”

  Her dark eyes gleam wetly, the vertical lines of her pupils throbbing.

  “Got it?” I demand.

  She nods jerkily, the ridges on her nose contracting with a deep breath. “W-what are you going to do?”

  I force a smile, the curve of my lips painful on my face. “Fly, of course.”

  Also by Sophie Jordan

  Lessons from a Scandalous Bride

  Wicked in Your Arms

  Wicked Nights With a Lover

  In Scandal They Wed

  Sins of a Wicked Duke

  Surrender to Me

  One Night With You

  Too Wicked to Tame

  Once Upon a Wedding Night

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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  New York Times bestselling author SOPHIE JORDAN grew up in the Texas Hill Country where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she lives in Houston with her family. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattés and Diet Cherry Coke are preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her family), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality-TV shows. Sophie also writes young adult romance novels for HarperTeen. You can visit her online at www.sophiejordan.net.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Excerpt from How to Lose a Bride in One Night copyright © 2013 by Sharie Kohler.

  Excerpt from Firelight copyright © 2010 by Sharie Kohler.

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