The Summer You Found Me (The Summer, #3)

by Elizabeth O'Roark

“Make a girl go all day with no human interaction and she’s happy to see anyone.”

“I’m going to say this once and then we are never going to discuss it again. The first time I saw you, I thought you were the most perfect thing I’d ever seen, and I still think it. I wouldn’t change a single thing about you. Now shut the fuck up and watch the show.”

“If anything happened to you,” he replies, his voice low and gravelly, “I would never forgive myself.”

“Touch her like that again,” Beck says, his voice quiet and lethal, “and I’ll break every fucking bone in your body.”

“Let’s go for a ride.” Her head jerks up. “On your bike?” “No, on my magic carpet. Yes, of course on my bike.”

He thought she was a fire that might burn out of control. He thought he was protecting her when all he was really doing was depriving her of air.