Remember Yesterday
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This is the core of my nightmares. This is the vision I swore would never come to fruition. Their hatred. My betrayal.
Well, it’s coming true now. Except it’s worse. Worse than waking up screaming in my bed. Worse than recognizing the birthmark on the waist of the chairwoman’s assistant. Worse even than facing myself in the deep of night and knowing that the only solution is to betray my family.
Because I knew what was coming. And I still chose to do it.
So the vision will come true after all. I will become the chairwoman’s assistant. Just not for the reasons that I thought.
I’ll become her assistant not because I’m on her side. But because this is the only way I know to stop her. The only way I can get her to trust me. The only way I can insinuate myself onto her team and work my destruction from within.
She said she needed actions, not words. Well, this is the only action I can think to take. If I’m right, then maybe I’ll save the world. Maybe I’ll obliterate this future of genocide, once and for all.
If I’m wrong? Then I will have suffered the hatred of everyone I love for no reason at all. Tanner’s been through worse.
The room spins around me with their anger, with their flurry of motion. Hate me or not, they must save themselves. They must get away before PuSA breaks down these doors.
My knees go weak, and I stumble. Tanner catches me an instant before I hit the floor. Looking into his eyes, I know that at least he is on my side—will always be on my side.
No one else pays attention to me. I’m beneath their notice now.
All except Callie. She is the only one who is still, while the others race around, struggling to prepare in five minutes for a trip that might last five months or more. She is the eye of a storm that’s been raging for the last ten years, and she watches me with the deep love and generosity only a sister can feel.
“Forgive me,” I whisper, repeating back to her the words she said to me so many years ago.
“Always,” she says, and with that single word, she gives me strength. Hope that I will be brave enough and worthy enough to face what’s to come. To do what I need to do to defeat the chairwoman.
Callie believes in me. For now, and for always, and that means everything.
Of course, it shouldn’t surprise me that she alone would be the one to understand. It was the jingle that woke her up, after all.
end of book two
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This is the third time in a year that I’ve had to write acknowledgments for a novel. While my comments may feel repetitive, my gratitude is just as heartfelt.
Thank you to my amazing agent, Beth Miller, for your continued guidance and advocacy. I’m so glad I have you on my side!
My brilliant editor and publisher, Liz Pelletier, has helped me shape this story with her astute insight. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your continued belief in this series. Thank you to Madison Pelletier for being one of my earliest readers, and thank you to the entire team at Entangled—and in particular, Melissa Montovani, Stacy Abrams, and Heather Riccio—for turning this story into a book.
L.J. Anderson, the cover is just breathtaking. Thank you. My gratitude goes to Rebecca Mancini for placing the Forget Tomorrow trilogy with my foreign publishers. Thank you to Lucy Stille, my film agent.
Thank you to Editions Lumen, in France; Record, in Brazil; and Pegasus Yayinlari, in Turkey, for bringing the Forget Tomorrow trilogy to your respective countries.
I would like to thank RWA for awarding Forget Tomorrow with a RITA® for Best First Book, an honor beyond my wildest dreams.
I am indebted to Danielle Meitiv for her genius brainstorming of this book and to Meg Kassel and Kimberly MacCarron for their insightful comments. Thank you, as well, to Brenda Drake, Vanessa Barneveld, Denny Bryce, and Stephanie Winklehake for your friendship and constant support. Special thanks to all of my writing groups—and a shout-out to Katie Robinson for her stunning photographs.
Thank you to my family, the Hompluems, the Dunns, and the Techavacharas. I could write pages about what you mean to me—but suffice it to say, I love and appreciate all of you so much. I have the best family in the world. I believe that with every ounce of my being.
To Antoine and my three beautiful children: you are ALL my favorite. I feel blessed every day to be a part of your lives.
And finally, thank you to my wonderful readers. I hope you enjoy Jessa’s story just as much as Callie’s!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pintip Dunn graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with an A.B. in English Literature and Language. She received her J.D. at Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the YALE LAW JOURNAL. She also published an article in the YALE LAW JOURNAL, entitled, “How Judges Overrule: Speech Act Theory and the Doctrine of Stare Decisis.”
Pintip is represented by literary agent Beth Miller of Writers House. Her debut novel, FORGET TOMORROW, is a finalist in the Best First Book category of RWA’s RITA® contest. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Washington Romance Writers, YARWA, and The Golden Network.
She lives with her husband and children in Maryland. You can learn more about Pintip and her books at www.pintipdunn.com
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