Chapter 15
THE MORNING AFTER BRENDAN Called Katie and Katie Finally Called Him Back
Star Prairie, WI
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KATIE WOKE UP AT THREE-forty-five, rolled over, turned the alarm on her phone off, and flopped back down on her pillows. As always, she’d woken up automatically fifteen minutes before she’d actually had to. She’d spent years travelling the world for competition and glory, but this — a few extra minutes in bed in her room at her family’s farmhouse — was what felt like luxury.
Her room didn’t look much different from how it had when she was a teenager. The walls were the same eggshell white, the carpet the same dark green. The trim had been newly scraped and re-stained in another improvement made by her uncle Jesse. It was now a deep brown that showed off the grain of the wood.
