Seventeen
Erin perched on the log in front of her fort with her hands folded in her lap and leaned over her legs. For a while, she watched the waves lap at the beach, sparkling in the sun as it crested the forested hills guarding Sea Glass Cove. Her mind was empty of thought for a time, content to take in the familiar rhythm of the Pacific and the touch of thick salt air on her exposed face, but gradually, the issues that had driven her down to her fort seeped back in.
How had Gideon said it last night?
I swear, I’ve never seen this side of her.
And that smile when he’d said it….
He’d waited so long to see whatever it was Hannah had shown him last night, and Erin couldn’t help but wonder how that would change things. After lying awake most of the night thinking about it, she’d a
