The Summer We Fell (The Summer, #1)

by Elizabeth O'Roark

It’s funny, the way you get what you want and just start wanting something else.

“Something they locked up in a cage. And I think you were so relieved to find a safe place to land you didn’t even realize it happened. I thought I could save you if I came here this summer, but even if someone opens the cage, you’ve got to be willing to fly away, too, Jules.”

thought I was going to die, and the only thing that mattered, the only thing I wanted, was you,” he says against my mouth. “You were all I fucking thought about.” He

And that’s why this kills me, Juliet. Because I think I do know how to take care of you, and I want to take his place so bad that it fucking hurts to look at you sometimes.”

“I haven’t loved many things in this world,” he says, “but I loved you from the minute I saw you, and whether it’s today or seventy years from now, I’ll love you with my dying breath.”

I had to do it. Surfing meant everything to you.” He stops pacing and stares at me, his nostrils flaring. “No, you meant everything to me. Surfing’s just what I do for a living.”

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“Don’t try to tell a man who’s waited ten years for you that you love him more.”