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Chapters (56)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. 1
  4. 2
  5. 3
  6. 4
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  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. 14
  17. 15
  18. OCTOBER
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  52. Acknowledgments
  53. More from Jessica Redland
  54. About the Author
  55. Also by Jessica Redland
  56. About Boldwood Books

I looked down at our intertwined hands and, at the moment, I knew I’d never want to do a runner. It wasn’t just a physical thing. Yes, she was beautiful, but there was something else about her that was captivating. Her sense of humour? Her sense of adventure? Her sense of knowing who she was and not caring if she wore no make-up and had sand in her hair? Whatever it was, it had me completely hooked. Jack could get things spectacularly wrong but somehow the boy had done good. Turns out he wasn’t such a tosser after all.

3

Jemma

Present Day – 24th June

‘Scott! Sorry I lost you,’ I said, as the train approached Whitsborough Bay Station. ‘Bad signal. Where are you?’

There was a pause before he said, ‘Still in Manchester.’

My heart sank. ‘Manchester? No! Why?’ He’d assured me that his meeting would be finished at lunchtime, giving him loads of time to drive to Whitsborough Bay ready for my birthday meal this evening.

‘I’m sorry, Jem. I thought we’d have been finished by lunch but they wanted to discuss a new design.’

‘Didn’t you tell them you had plans?’ I cringed at the whiney tone in my voice.

‘I know you’re disappointed but what could I do? Refuse to discuss a half a million pound business deal because it’s my girlfriend’s birthday? I’d have lost my job. And then all the nights and weekends apart would have been for nothing.’

He was right. He needed the work. Scott worked for a company that… well, I’m not really sure what they did. He’d told me when we met but it had been completely over my head. Something to do with renewable energy and engineering but that’s about as far as my understanding went. His job took him all over the country during the week to meet clients, and had him working most weekends at exhibitions and trade shows to generate interest and hopefully secure some business. As such, time together over the past seventeen months had been rare and precious. Scott assured me that it would only be for a couple more years, at which point the company would have expanded, he’d get promoted, and he wouldn’t have to travel so much.