Hearts in the Sand

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Summary

For the first eighteen years of my life, I saw him everyday. Logan–my father’s best friend. He was an honorary uncle. When I was five, I said I was going to marry him. Everyone thought it was cute. The pictures from our wedding were in my graduation slideshow. But the older I got the less people believed when I said I would marry him someday. It became inappropriate. After I graduated high school, everything changed. I moved away to college, and he moved to the beach three hours south. I didn’t see him every single day. Hell, I’ve only seen him five or six times in six years. I thought about him constantly though. Not wanting to bombard him with daily texts, I kept a diary, just for him. There’s nothing spectacular in it, just simple life things, like the time I finally parallel parked on the crowded street in one go, or the time I got locked in the library because I fell asleep in one of the private study rooms and had to call security to get me out. A million little moments I wanted him to know, that I would have shared with him. When my dad retired, and decided to spend the summer with Logan, they invited me with them, and my mom and my little brother. I hated my job, and my lease was up, so why the hell not? A summer at the beach with no real expenses? Count me in. What I didn’t know was that it would be the summer that changed everything.

Status
Complete
Chapters
30
Rating
4.8 58 reviews
Age Rating
18+

Blurb and trigger warning

Copyright © 2022 Violet Bloom.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the author. Except for use in brief quotations for the purposes of a review. This book is a work of fiction. Characters, names, places, events are product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, events, businesses, and places is coincidental.

Trigger warning:

This book contains subject matter that is intended for audiences 18+ and that may be triggering to some readers, including graphic descriptoins of sex and romantic interests with a signifcant age gap. If you are uncomfortable with that subject matter, please stop reading

Blurb:

Cora’s point of view

For the first eighteen years of my life, I saw him everyday. Logan–my father’s best friend. He was an honorary uncle. When I was five, I said I was going to marry him. Everyone thought it was cute. The pictures from our wedding were in my graduation slideshow.

But the older I got the less people believed when I said I would marry him someday. It became inappropriate.

After I graduated high school, everything changed. I moved away to college, and he moved to the beach three hours south.

I didn’t see him every single day. Hell, I’ve only seen him five or six times in six years.

I thought about him constantly though. Not wanting to bombard him with daily texts, I kept a diary, just for him. There’s nothing spectacular in it, just simple life things, like the time I finally parallel parked on the crowded street in one go, or the time I got locked in the library because I fell asleep in one of the private study rooms and had to call security to get me out.

A million little moments I wanted him to know, that I would have shared with him.

When my dad retired, and decided to spend the summer with Logan, they invited me with them, and my mom and my little brother. I hated my job, and my lease was up, so why the hell not? A summer at the beach with no real expenses? Count me in.

What I didn’t know was that it would be the summer that changed everything.