Georgia Meets Her Groom. Elizabeth Bevarly

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      Prologue

      He knew her only by sight, knew that her name was Georgia Lavender and that her daddy practically owned the whole damned town. Carlisle, Virginia, even if it was a thriving beach resort in the summer, was barely a smudge on the map the rest of the year. And just as everybody knew that Georgia was rich, everybody knew she was smart—the kid who’d been skipped a couple of grades back in elementary school, and who, just shy of fourteen, was the youngest member of the sophomore class.

      Just as everybody knew he was the oldest at almost seventeen, having been held back twice—once in sixth grade and once in seventh. They also knew it hadn’t been because he was stupid so much as it had been because he was such a troublemaker.

      And hell, he wasn’t even from Carlisle. This just happened to be the most recent place the state had dumped him, after he’d been exiled from yet another group home because of what the social workers had politely called “antisocial behavior.” In spite of being the new kid in town, though, it had taken him no time at all to acquire a reputation.

      Jack McCormick strode across the school parking lot and watched with veiled interest as Georgia Lavender made her way reluctantly toward her father, who was leaning against an expensive, late-model car. Her clothes suggested she had a modest disposition—a tan skirt and white blouse, white knee socks and plain brown shoes. Jack had heard Susie Morris and some of the other girls laughing about Georgia’s clothes pretty often, but he’d never really paid much attention until now.

      She wore glasses, too, their huge frames and thick lenses giving her the appearance of some kind of small, timid animal whose eyes had outgrown СКАЧАТЬ