Summer at Firefly Beach: The perfect feel-good summer romance by Jenny Hale

Author:Jenny Hale
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781786817334
Publisher: Bookouture

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After breakfast, Hallie and Ashley left their sandals on the porch and took a walk on the beach. Hallie was glad for the sunshine and the squawk of seagulls overhead to lighten the mood. The wind rippled her shirt as they made their way past the sea grass and over the white dunes. They walked until the tinkling of Aunt Clara’s glass wind chime on the back porch was but a faint sound under the rush of water around their feet.

“What do you think is going on with Ben?” Ashley said, putting her hands in the pockets of her shorts as she kicked a gurgling wave, the spray spitting out in front of them.

“I don’t know,” Hallie said honestly. Even if there was something new between them, it wasn’t like him to leave Hallie when she needed him. He never did that. “I think he might just be really busy at work.”

“No. I don’t think so.” Ashley’s voice was tentative. “I’m sure he told you that we broke up.” Her lip wobbled and she turned toward the sea. “When I got to Firefly Beach, I’d asked to meet up with him so I could get some kind of closure. Our breakup seemed so sudden; I don’t understand it.”

Hallie hated to see Ashley so sad. “Want to talk about it?”

She took in an anxious breath. “I thought things were fine, and then a couple of weeks ago he came by the house and told me he didn’t think we should date exclusively, that it wasn’t fair to me. I have no idea what he meant by that because I didn’t want to date anyone else. How could dating him be unfair to me when he’s all I want?” She blinked away tears.

“This happened a couple of weeks ago?”

“I remember the very day. I’d just come home from work for my last day before my time off. It was a Friday, and I was hoping he was coming over to make plans for the night because the weather was perfect for drinks outside. We’d talked about going to The Gulch. I’d hoped we could maybe go out and have a nice dinner and a glass of wine or something at one of the rooftop bars.”

Two Fridays ago was the day Hallie had called Ben to ask him to come with her to Firefly Beach. And like a flash, she remembered their exchange when Gavin came to pick her up: she’d asked him why it was a natural reaction to make her feel like she had to be afraid of everyone she dated.

He’d returned, “You don’t have to be afraid of them.”

It was all starting to come together… He didn’t ever seem to like people she dated because he was afraid of them. How long had he felt this way about her? The spot on her chest tingled where his fingers had first been. She rubbed it to make it stop, unable to get a breath.

“I invited him over because I

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