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At Any Price
The Manifesto
1. I’d refreshed the web page at least twenty times…
2. I passed through the next week like an automaton…
3. I Googled him the minute I got home…
4. As the next few days rolled on…
5. To Save a Distressed Damsel…
6. We left Amsterdam the next day after a late brunch…
7. The week dragged on and I muddled through hospital shifts…
8. Adam appeared at my door at exactly eleven…
9. Monday night was group study night…
10. I woke up fairly early—around seven…
11. After work the next day, I met Heath at his place.
12. We slept in almost until noon and had a quick brunch…
13. The Perks of Being a Hot Chick…
14. St. Lucia was even more beautiful the next day…
15. I shouldn’t have worried about the plane ride home…
16. When the going gets tough, the tough go running home…
17. It took me an hour to recover from the shock of seeing him…
18. After breakfast—during which, mercifully, we did not speak…
Bonus Content
At Any Turn
The First Quest
1. Five weeks of torture. Two miles until it ended.
2. After we returned home from the national park…
3. For the next seventy-two hours I slept very little…
4. The following Friday night I took Emilia out to dinner…
5. I only slept a few hours, starting awake after a disturbing dream…
6. She came to the office the next morning.
7. Text me when you get home, please, so we can talk.
8. The next morning, Sunday, I woke up with…
9. I left work early on Tuesday because she hadn’t come in…
10. The next day, Wednesday, I was at work again…
11. The next Saturday brought more paintball practice…
12. The next day, Saturday, I had an appointment…
13. The next day was Sunday and I had very little to do…
14. DracoCon was in less than two short weeks…
15. The next day after breakfast, I was about to grab my phone…
16. I woke up that morning to an economy-sized headache…
17. When the bus dropped us off at the complex…
18. We both opted to stay away for Thanksgiving…
19. Two days after Christmas, I was back at work.
20. I spent half the night wondering what to do.
At Any Moment
The Do Over
1. This was the ongoing story of how I completely and utterly fucked up my life.
2. I watched Emilia closely as the doctor delivered her prognosis numbers.
3. I slowly got out of the car, my muscles stiff with annoyance.
4. After yet another long and sleepless night...
5. We spent New Year’s Eve in Adam’s audiovisual room...
6. Emilia spent the rest of New Year’s Day in her room at Heath’s...
7. My body felt like it was breaking in half and my heart along with it.
8. Emilia had her minor surgical procedures done...
9. “Not All Secrets Stay That Way Forever”
10. I leaned back against the couch and listened to her sleep.
11. “You need to do it, Mia.”
12. I stood frozen for a moment while Emilia heaved...
13. “Meta-gaming or the Lives our Characters Lead, Without Us”
14. Over the next few days all she seemed to do was sleep...
15. “Take that you green-faced fucktard!”
16. It was two a.m. and I’d drifted off to sleep again...
17. “Online Friendship: Is It the Real Deal?”
18. After brushing my teeth and changing into my pajamas...
19. I was sure that Adam thought I couldn’t handle a little...
20. I knew she had questions that I couldn’t—or wouldn’t—answer.
21. Something was wrong. I knew it the moment...
22. Thank God I checked on her regularly after a new round.
23. “I can help you with one of those, you know,”
24. I spent about a half hour with Jordan signing paperwork...
25. Two weeks later, the night before Adam’s twenty-seventh birthday...
26. We slept in the bed together and I know she was expecting more.
27. The hotel was breathtaking, and from the moment we entered...
28. I was enjoying this immensely.
29. Project Seduction was about to cash in.
30. I folded her in my arms, held her tightly...
31. The night before we were to fly home...
32. Two days after we returned home, Emilia went in for her scan.
33. I was doing this for Adam. He wanted me there.
34. “Do you want to talk?” I whispered.
35. I undid the towel from his waist...
36. I watched as her face clouded, like a storm suddenly sweeping overland.
37. I waited in the weighted tension between us for him to respond.
38. I was up all night. I didn’t even try to sleep.
39. Full circle. That’s what this was.
40. I dreamt about her every night she was gone.
41. The hotel room in which we were staying for the wedding...
42. It was almost midnight when I fell back against the pillow...
43. I lingered on the rocks after that short, humble ceremony.
44. I jogged up that hill as quickly as I could once I left the sand.
45. I trudged across the sand and let myself into the cottage.
46. Emilia had pressed something into my hand.
47. Six Weeks Later.
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Afterword
For The Win excerpt
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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