The Summer We Fell

The Summer We Fell

Author: Elizabeth O’Roark Listening Length: 9h 11m
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He was my boyfriend’s best friend—and the bane of my existence. I wanted to hate Luke Taylor. I did hate him. I just never hated him enough. Now, a decade later, tragedy has brought us back to the place where it all happened—my best times, and my worst. Our lives have changed, but that pull between us is just as str...

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I lie in bed waiting for the sound of his footfall against the wood, for the sigh of the mattress as his knee sinks into it. When he arrives, I’ll tell him to leave. I will. Even if it’s the last thing I want to do.

But I fall asleep waiting, and when the bed sighs and his weight is above me, I’m somehow unable to form the words I need to form. I want him to stop and I don’t want him to stop, and it’s only as my eyes fly open that I realize I’m alone.

I’m relieved and I’m empty, all at the same time.