The Summer We Fell

I figured Harrison came from money, but I didn't know he came from this kind of money. His parents’ house, with its multi-million-dollar views of the Pacific and the cliffs, is the equivalent of three regular homes.

It has a pool and two kitchens, two laundry rooms, and so many bedrooms that, though there are thirty of us, no one needs to sleep on the floor.

I haven’t seen Luke since the night of Danny’s proposal three months ago, when he watched me say, “Yes” in stunned silence. He was gone the next morning, before I woke.

I think he understood that I didn’t have a choice, that I couldn’t take one more thing away from them when they’d just lost so much, and he appears to have moved on just fine—he won a shortboard contest in La Jolla and finally secured enough major sponsors to go on the tour, though he nearly lost all of them when he got into a fistfight at the next competition.