Their hands brushed, and she wondered for a second if he would take hers in his. But that would never happen. Wren Parker was the guy who dated the homecoming queen. He was the shortstop of the Cape Cod Baseball League team and the guy who could steer a sailboat through a fierce storm and return unscathed. He was not the guy who would take Peggy Andrews’s hand. Instead, he treated her like the sister he didn’t have.
