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“She’s a great Angel. I think she’ll make a wonderful
Guardian.”
“But will she be wearing your Divine Ring one day?”
Jacks glanced at Darcy. She was glaring at him, stern
and expectant. Tara’s eyes narrowed.
“Well, I have to get it first. Then we’ll see,” he said
finally.
“So it’s still a mystery!” Tara shrieked into the camera.
“Jackson and Vivian, are they secretly back together?!”
Jacks looked back at Darcy again. Her expression had
transformed into relieved approval. She gave Jacks a
thumbs-up. He felt that pang again, just for a moment. As
though he wasn’t even here.
Darcy led Jacks toward the throng of Angels sipping
drinks, talking, and laughing in the lobby. He recognized a
few of the other Angels who were going to be commissioned
this week, like Milo Trinity and the Churchson twins. They’d
been a class ahead of him until this year, so he didn’t know
them all that well, but it seemed they had shown up at his
party despite the fact that the attention around Jacks had
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basically taken over their own Commissionings. Jackson
had just pulled out his phone to text Mitch when he saw
Vivian eagerly waving to him across the room.
“Good job,” Darcy said while pounding the keys on
her phone. “I’ll leave you here. Go have fun, okay?”
“I will,” he lied.
Jacks sighed as he watched Vivian walk toward him.
• • •
They entered the lobby together and Vivian took hold of
Jacks’s arm. Despite his attempts to disengage, she made
herself inseparable from him, and they worked the party together.
They chatted with the Archangels. They posed for
pictures. It looked like they had never broken up. Finally
they walked out to the patio to get some air.
“I just wanted to tell you I’m glad we took this break,”
Vivian said as she led him to a quiet corner.
“Great, Viv,” Jacks said. “Me too.” Maybe he had worried
unnecessarily. Maybe she was starting to move on after
all. Had she started to understand how he felt about the
whole thing?
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“You’re young still,” he said encouragingly. “You
should, you know, see what else is out there.”
Vivian stepped in front of him and put a hand on his
chest, stopping him. Her flawless brow knitted together.
“I know what’s going on, Jacks.”
Jacks paused. “What do you mean?”
“I know this whole breakup thing is just for the press,
a little publicity stunt before Commissioning, right? I get it.”
Jacks blinked. He could feel the shock on his face.
“Vivian, I told you I needed time to focus before my
Commissioning, and that’s the truth,” he said.
“Jacks, I get it. ” She smiled coyly. “I’ll play along,
even though, seriously, like you need any more publicity!
With your wings and early Commissioning, you’re going to
be the biggest Guardian ever. I just want to hear you say
we’re getting back together after you get your Divine Ring.”
He said nothing, too startled to be diplomatic. Vivian
took a step forward and moved her body against his. “We’ll
surprise everyone. They’ll discover our secret romance on
some beach somewhere. Do you have any idea how much
press that will get? The media will eat it up. And it will
totally help sales for my fashion line.”
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“Vivian,” Jacks began, but she put a finger against his
lips. Her emerald eyes had becoming piercing and seductive.
“You’re Jackson Godspeed. I’m Vivian Holycross,” she
said. “It’s just... right. Right?”
Jacks’s gaze drifted desperately to a restroom sign
with an arrow hanging on the wall. “Viv?” Jacks said. “Will
you excuse me? I’m just going to use the restroom.”
“Okay,” she said, her eyes dancing, “But don’t be too
long.”
He turned quickly and left. Her coy smile was still in
place, but she watched him go, dissatisfied.
Jacks made his way down the narrow hallway that led
to the bathroom. But he passed the door labeled Gentlemen
and went instead through a back door leading to the parking
lot. One of the valets was standing by the Dumpsters,
smoking.
“Hey man,” Jacks whispered. The valet’s eyes grew
wide when he saw Jacks. “Would you mind pulling my car
around?” He held out his valet ticket and a hundred-dollar
bill. “And would you mind being discreet about it?”
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