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CHAPTER 1

A car nearly hit me as I practically floated across the street in a daze after leaving the attorney’s office All these years, I’d tried so hard not to think about him Now, he was all I could think about

Justin

Oh my God

Justin

Flashes of hihter, the struorgeous eyes the last tio

I was never supposed to face hi with Justin Banks was not an option, even if just for the summer Well, it was probably more like there wasn’t a chance in hell that Justin Banks was going to agree to share a house with h, the beach house in Newport was ours now Not mine Not his Ours Fifty-fifty

What the hell was Nana thinking?

I’d always known she cared deeply about him, but there was no way I could have predicted the extent of her generosity He wasn’t even related to us, but she’d always thought of hirandson

I picked up my phone and scrolled down to Tracy’s nah of relief

“Where are you?” I asked

“On the East Side Why?”

“Can you meet up? I really need to talk to someone”

“Are you okay?”

My htened He hatedto have to face him now

Tracy’s voice snapped hts “Amelia? Are you still there?”

“Yeah Everything’s fine Uh…where are you again?”

“Meet me at the falafel place on Thayer Street We’ll have an early dinner and talk about whatever is going on”

“Okay See you in ten”

Tracy was a fairly new friend, so she knew little about ether at a local charter school in Providence I had taken today off to randmother’s attorney

The smell of cumin and dried mint saturated the air inside of the Middle Eastern fast food restaurant Tracy waved froh Styrofoam container of tahini-covered chicken kabobs and rice already planted in front of her

“You’re not gonna get anything to eat?” she asked with her urt sauce coated the side of her mouth

“No I’o on the way out I just needed to talk”

“What the hell is going on?”

My throat felt parched “Actually, I need so on” The rooerator by the counter

After returning fro a bottle of water, I sat down and let out a deep breath “I got some pretty crazy news today at the lawyer’s office”

“Okay…”

“So, obviously you knoent there because o…”

“Yes”

“Well, I was just o over her estate Turns out she left me all of her jewelry…and half of her summer house on Aquidneck Island”

“What? The beautiful house in that picture on your desk?”

“Yeah That’s the one We’d always go there a lot in the suer, but in recent years, she’d rented it out The property had been in her faenerations It’s older, but it’s beautiful and overlooks the water”

“A Why do you seem so upset?”