Summer with a Navy SEAL

He teased her for a decade. Now he needs her to lie for him.

Brogan Hollister teased me mercilessly for our entire childhood. Now he's on my porch at midnight, asking to stay.

I'm Willy, and I have a beach house halfway through a renovation, three days left in Love Beach, and a flight to New York with my name on it. What I don't have is room in my life for the boy who made me cry in the eighth grade, even if the Navy turned him into six feet of shoulders and better manners.

I let him sleep on the couch. One night. That's it.

The next morning he tells his mother we've been seeing each other for six months.

So now I'm fake dating a Navy SEAL to save him from his own mother's matchmaking, in a town where everybody already has an opinion about me, with a countdown running on the whole thing. Fine. Three days. I can be charming for three days.

Except Brogan isn't the boy I remember. And the way he looks at me across my half finished kitchen has nothing pretend about it.

Three days. Then I get on that plane. That was the deal.