“How are you doing?” he asked as they moved around the dance floor.
“I’m good, Uncle Jake. How are you?”
He made a face. “Fine, except you know I really hate when you call me that.”
She knew, which was why she teased him by doing it often. Technically, she wasn’t wrong. Since his dad was her stepgrandfather, she figured that made Jake her stepuncle.
But he was so much more to her. He was her best friend, who always had her back. He was also, though she wasn’t ready to tell him yet, the guy she loved with all her heart.
Someday, she and Jake would be the ones dancing together at their wedding with fairy lights in the trees and ocean waves crashing below and family all around. Jake had never even kissed her but she somehow knew it, without the tiniest sliver of doubt.
She wasn’t quite seventeen yet and wasn’t ready to even think about taking things to the next level with Jake. Now that she knew who her dad was and had come to know her mom a little more—and, okay, maybe even forgive her a little—she knew the next step. Now it was time to go out into the world and figure out who she was.
Once she did, she knew the time would be right for her and Jake. For now, she was happy here, in this beautiful town by the water, surrounded by people she loved.
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ISBN: 9781488055874
The Sea Glass Cottage
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