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rumor, and it has to do with Rex and his whole paranoia about a girl cheating on him. You know how he acted with you when you started dating? All jealous and checking up on you every night?”
    She was talking fast, like she just wanted to get through all this, and the only reason she was putting me through the rumor mill was because I needed to know. And I did. Forewarned is forearmed.
    I calmed down my stomping pulse. “I thought his possessiveness meant that he really did love me. I didn’t know any better.” I’d never really dated much before Rex. But now I was wiser.
    â€œRight. So I heard that Rex was still hurting from your breakup, and we know that underneath the jock suit he’s a hypocrite who was always afraid you would leave him. And some people are wondering if, somehow, Rex let Jadyn have an extra-long leash at parties and such, and he was testing
her
faithfulness that way.”
    Was she saying that
Rex
had asked this new guy to seduce her? Yeah, that really was a weird rumor. Truthfully, it was stranger than the one about me and the new guy.
    I turned my face away from Evie. It was just that, every time she said “Rex”—and every time a memory spiked me—I got sicker and sicker.
    Reading me, Evie switched focus. “All right, forget all that. What I’m really getting around to is that this new guy is supposedly making his way through half the female population in Aidan Falls, and he’s only been here since the beginning of the year. Jadyn’s just another notch in his huge pistol slinger belt, if you know what I mean.”
    Thank God, moving on. “I can’t believe Jadyn would do that to Rex. She’s had a crush on him since junior year.”
    â€œDidn’t just about everyone? Except me.”
    I turned to her. “You’re positive she did this.”
    â€œBasically. Not that this is proof, but my sister saw Jadyn sulking around Kroger a week ago. She was stocking shelves, looking like she just wanted to go off somewhere and cry.”
    I knew the feeling. But maybe I was supposed to hate Jadyn, seeing as Rex had fallen into her arms so quickly after our breakup. It’d been hard to dislike her, though, since she’d always seemed sweet in high school. Very decent to everyone. Who could hate that?
    Evie continued. “I keep hearing how hot this Micah Wyatt guy is, so I’m wondering just how easy he makes it to go gaga over him.”
    Time to give Evie another
what?
look. This was a girl who’d told me that, in a college psychology class, she’d discovered she was “asexual,” which pretty much explained why she could care less about having steady, committed boyfriends. But clearly she could still think a guy was hot.
    â€œNo lie,” Evie said.
    I hugged my knees to my chest and exhaled. No matter what I’d been through with Rex, I didn’t want him to hurt. And I couldn’t even wrap my mind around the idea of someone being more desirable than he was.
    He wasn’t just beautiful, with his tall, honed athlete’s body, toasty-tan skin that brought out the light brown of his eyes, and thick brown hair that flopped over his forehead. I missed his laugh and his lust for life.
    How could any other guy compare to him?
    Evie didn’t say anything for a minute. There were only the chopping beats of music coming from the dock, the laughter, the feel of eyes on me, even from a distance.
    But she didn’t stay quiet for long. “I hope you aren’t thinking what I think you’re thinking.”
    â€œWhat’s that?”
    â€œRex. Now that he’s single again, you aren’t going to . . . ?”
    â€œNo.” My heart cracked around the edges.
    The seconds ticked by as I kept taking in Evie’s news, and when a cheer went up from the dock, I glanced over to see a sight that suspended my pulse.
    Rex was sauntering toward his open-armed friends. He