Chapter One
Cooper
Six months.
Six months was all it took for me to completely lose my s**t. I gave it my best, but it turned out all the one-night stands and hangovers in the world couldn’t erase the sting of heartbreak and rejection. My brother Gavin had gotten the girl, while I’d retreated alone to the one place that had always felt like home.
While my grandparents were still alive and in my life, they had owned a condo in Florida, it was little more than a cheap apartment complex with a bunch of gray-haired retirees, but once a year when my mom dropped us off there during spring break, something about the salty ocean air and swaying palm trees felt like heaven. Like I could escape my lonely little world and all my problems while I was there.
Which was why, when I fled Boston, I
