CHAPTER 1EMMA“I would say I’m shocked, but I’m actually not surprised at all,” my best friend, Winnie, tells me, her eyes narrowed on me from across the small café table.My nose scrunches as I try to decide if I’m offended by her comment. “Listen. I know I don’t have the best history with jobs, but that one was even more terrible than most. My boss was pushing sixty and kept asking me to do private work at his house.” I take a long drink of my iced coffee, remembering the creepy looks he was always giving me. “Private work at his house can’t be good, Winnie.”She shrugs, nodding as she realizes I have a point. “I could always see if we could get you a job at Bishop-Moore.” Her voice is sweet, and I know she’s just trying to be nice by offering a job at the hotel dynasty she runs with her husband, Archer Moore, but working another job that I don’t have a passion for is the last thing I want to do.With a groan, I sit back in the padded chair of the fancy restaurant she’d invited me

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CHAPTER 2EMMAMy grip is tight on the handle of my suitcase as I stop in the driveway of Winnie’s Hamptons home. My lips twitch as I look up, a wide smile spreading over my face.“This will do,” I mutter under my breath, gazing at my home for the summer until the Uber driver interrupts me from my thoughts.“Having a party?” he asks, handing me a tote bag with three bottles of wine.I shrug. “Those are for me.”The man quirks an eyebrow, staring me down with a speculative look on his face.I blow out some air, trying to ease the awkward tension. “Don’t judge me, Simon. It was Simon, right?” I add on, worrying that I may have messed up his name.“Yes, it’s Simon.” He turns around to get the rest of my luggage from the back of his sedan.Simon hasn’t been my biggest fan since the moment he picked me up from the airport. I had a luggage carrier spilling over with suitcases as I waited on the curb for my ride. I was supposed to arrive in Long Island hours ago, but due to my flight being d

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PRESTON“You could at least pretend to be enjoying the welcome party for my wedding,” my sister, Peyton, jabs before taking a sip of her dirty martini.I grunt, my fingers tightening around the beer I’ve been nursing for the past hour. “I’m sorry, P. I’m enjoying it. You know me and parties—they aren’t my thing.”“I remember hearing all about your legendary parties in college,” she quips.Cheers erupt in the corner of the busy bar as her future husband is coerced into taking another shot. She looks at Jackson lovingly, as if he can do no wrong, even though it takes him about five tries to finish off taking a shot instead of swallowing it down in one gulp.Personally, I think my baby sister could do better than a man who wears a collared shirt even to the beach, but she’s madly in love. So, my opinion doesn’t matter. He loves her dearly, and she loves him.I don’t hate the guy; I just don’t love the fact that the next week will be filled with one party after another before their weddin

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EMMAA loud laugh bubbles from my throat as I take in the stranger staring at me with an unreadable look on his face. “Wow. It turns out you weren’t lying,” I mutter, wondering if I said it for his benefit or for mine.He cocks his head to the side, his sharp jawline now illuminated by the moon. “Lying about what?”“You are stupidly handsome,” I answer, wishing it wasn’t the truth.His lips twitch. It isn’t a full smile, but even though I barely know this man, I could guess that a full smile is hard to earn from him. “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”My hands find my hips as I take another step back, the grass soft beneath my feet. “It’s a terrible thing. The more handsome a man is, the more of an asshole he is, too. It’s a proven fact.”One of his dark eyebrows rises as he watches me closely. God, does he have to be so attractive? His blue eyes are almost piercing, feeling like they’re staring me down right to my soul as he thinks something over.I use the silence to my advantage

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