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“So you’re like the son Jeremiah never had?”

  He shrugged.

  I couldn’t hold it in any longer. “But why?” I demanded, as if it were the first time I’d asked him that question. “Why you? Why now?”

  Peter looked uncomfortable. “Maybe he just likes me.”

  I stared at him. He didn’t meet my eyes. “Right,” I said coldly. If he thought I was that dumb, I wasn’t even going to argue about it. “That must be it.”

  “Try not to be cynical, Katy,” he said quietly. Then he smiled. “You look beautiful.”

  I looked away.

  “Like always,” he said.

  God. No wonder I love him.

  “I think I’ll be able to get away before too long,” he whispered in my ear. “Maybe we could go—”

  “Excuse me,” someone said as an ancient hand separated us. It was Jeremiah Shaw. Of course.

  “Pardon me for interrupting, Peter.” He stared at me. “Ummm . . .”

  “Katy,” I reminded him.

  “Yes,” Jeremiah said, his momentary notice of me already a distant memory. “Peter, I want you to meet someone . . .” He led Peter away, leaving me behind without a backward glance.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Cochran, Molly.

  Wishes / Molly Cochran.—First edition.

  pages cm

  Summary: Katy Ainsworth, a student at a Massachusetts boarding school full of witches and magic,

  gets more than she bargains for when she finds a fairy in the woods.

  “A Paula Wiseman book.”

  ISBN 978-1-4814-2165-2 (eBook)

  [1. Witches—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Fairies—Fiction. 4. Boarding schools—Fiction.

  5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Massachusetts—Fiction.] I. Title

  PZ7.C6394Wi 2014

  [Fic]—dc23

  2014002879