““To your girlfriend? ” I said, and my voice went up a few octaves. “To your fellow knight?”
“To anyone,” he replied. “It’s a security-clearance thing.”
Oh. Oh .
Except, no. “I don’t understand. You were going to go work for a big firm, make your money back.
That’s what you told me last fall. Now all of a sudden there’s some sort of government job on the table I knew nothing about? One you’re going to drop out of school for?”
Jamie reached out to me. “It’s complicated—a long story. I wanted this job last year, but I didn’t know if I was going to get it. Eli Law was my backup plan.”
Page 148 “Your—” I croaked. “Your backup plan?” Lydia and Josh were going to break up over her dream school, and to Jamie it was little more than a backup plan? And then I remembered what he’d said to me right after Spring Break. Play your cards right and no one will ever know it’s a backup plan . Just another of his many secrets.
He took in my expression.
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