Nate shot her a puzzled look. “Megan got hurt? How?”
“Doesn"t matter. It was a long time ago, and she"s all better now.” We"ll, sort of. She went on. “Anyway, your dad climbed up onto this very rock with me, and we talked for hours.”
We"ll, sort of“Is that how you fell in love with him?”
Janet remembered Neil tumbling off the rock, and the two of them rolling in the sand. It brought a smile to her face. At last, she said, “Yes.” She watched her son trying to work out what it meant to fall in love in his head, and she pulled him tighter. “Do you know how much I love you?”
“As much as the whole ocean?”
“More. You are the light of my life. And soon, we"re going to have a new house, and you"re going to have a new room with a big bed and lots of windows so you can look out at the trees and
