Eve and Adam. Майкл Грант

      

      He’s here.

      But he can’t be here.

      He’s real.

      But he can’t be real.

      He’s taller, somehow, in reality. His eyes are alive now, amazingly alive. He’s curious, concerned. He knows me – that much I can tell. He knows who I am.

      He’s the most beautiful male I’ve ever seen. Ever. Anywhere. George Clooney and Johnny Depp and Justin Timberlake and all of them, all of them, would be cast as Adam’s less attractive best friend.

      I wonder, can he speak anything more than my name?

      Although even that’s great. I liked hearing him say my name. I’d like him to do it again.

      “I’ve been looking for you,” he says.

      First published in Great Britain 2012

      by Electric Monkey – an imprint of Egmont UK Limited

      The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN

      Text copyright © Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate 2012

      The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

      Published by arrangement with Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan.

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN 978 1 4052 6434 1

       eISBN 978 1 7803 1299 6

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       EGMONT

      Our story began over a century ago, when seventeen-year-old Egmont Harald Petersen found a coin in the street. He was on his way to buy a flyswatter, a small hand-operated printing machine that he then set up in his tiny apartment.

      The coin brought him such good luck that today Egmont has offices in over 30 countries around the world. And that lucky coin is still kept at the company’s head offices in Denmark.

       for

       Jean Feiwel

       friend

       visionary

       responsible party

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