Once a Marine. Loree Lough

      “So the man gets all tongue-tied and he says, ‘Oh, no. Thank you, but I recognized you from a picture in your daughter’s foyer, and I just wanted to introduce myself.’ You should have seen the disappointed look on Dad’s face! I asked him to join us, and after he sat down, I said to him, ‘So, how do you know our girl?’ And he says to me, ‘I don’t really know her. We only just met, through the boy who lives next door to her.’ And I said, ‘Alex? He’s just the sweetest boy!’ And he says—”

      Maybe it had been a mistake to ask her not to leave out any of the details. At this rate, they’d be here till dawn. What Summer really wanted to know was if Zach had sweet-talked her parents into revealing details about her past. And if so, how many secrets had they shared?