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She laughs “You’re insufferable”

I for her hand, and she laces her fingers through mine “You like me”

“I do,” she murmurs “I’m afraid how much”

“Still worried about the other shoe falling?”

She nods, biting her lip “Rachel says it’s not abnormal…with my history”

“She told ”

“Let’s be a one-shoe family, shall we?” she asks

I nod “One shoe forever”

I think hthouse park and start across the bridge She sits up in her seat and looks out at the sound with her eyebrows notched together “Is this an island, then?”

“I don’t know” I’h “What do you think?”

She squeezesme the kind of smile that makes my stomach do a barrel roll

“Welcome to Whidbey Island, Siren”

“Are you giving me a party?”

“You want a party? I can do that for you”

She draws her legs up into her seat, and I can tell her pretty face is getting red