Endless Southern Love (Magnolia Grove Book 8) by Heidi McLaughlin

Author:Heidi McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

fourteen

lemon

As much as I want to say it’s the sound of the ocean waking me or the calm breeze coming through my open window or the sound the shear curtains make when the wind blows—which I can only describe as shushing—it’s not. For the past three days my phone has rung relentlessly. The number of voicemails grows by the minute (only a slight exaggeration) from school board members demanding I return to work immediately.

I find it odd how my assistant principal—the one the school board pushed through with a unanimous vote—isn’t capable of running the school in my absence. Isn’t that one of their duties?

What if I had gone away to a conference or fell so ill, I needed hospitalization? Would the school board light up my phone with demands that I return to school? Let’s not forget my very capable assistant who has worked at the school longer than whatever euphemism people want to use.

The school isn’t burning down while I’ve been basking in the sun while sitting on the beach, reading a slew of romance novels.

“What a lie,” I say as I stare at the ceiling.

The truth is, I’ve done nothing but sulk and feel sorry for myself. Once I arrived here, I sat on the beach for the rest of the day and night, not budging or wiping my tears until the sun rose. The smart thing would’ve been to get back into my car and drive home. But I’m not smart. At least, it’s how I feel right now.

Instead, I found a hotel and lucked out that they had a room with direct access to the beach. After stocking up on some food essentials, I found a used bookstore and grabbed a half dozen books, determined to read them, and find some groove in my life

Each morning, I’ve woken and gone outside to start my day, only to stay there until my stomach growled long enough to attract vulture-like birds who stared at me, waiting for me to keel over so they could feast.

I’m in a funk and I can’t get out of it. Of course, I blame whatever circumstance brought Marigold Jenkins into my town.

His town.

Our town.

In all the years, she’s been to Magnolia Grove for the summer, and from what I gather from the copious amounts of spying and eavesdropping I’ve done, she’s here during every other holiday. Most of the time I can make myself scarce and not run into them. There’s nothing like a movie marathon or a drive to Leslie’s. But during the summer, I made sure to be gone because I knew something like this would happen. It’s hard to stay strong when I am weak. It’s hard to look past the mistakes Wade and I made and find happiness.

It’s hard to move past everything when I don’t have closure.

I wipe the stream of hot tears leaking from my eyes. Wade asked for closure, and I laughed in his face. How is he the more mature one between us? Is

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