Page 86 of The Spark Between Us

“Yeah. Great.”

I was an idiot.

Finn didn’t press me for details, but from his look, he sensed something was up. “We’ll talk later, okay?” He nodded and clapped me on the back. “Whatever it is, I’m here for you, you know that.”

Sarah and Isla came out of the house right then, and I watched her laugh at something Isla said. She was so beautiful, made even more so by the presence of her family. Even though she said they drove her crazy, they lifted her up—I could see that.

In the time she’d been here, I’d narrowed her world and it wasn’t her reality, not the one she should have.

I couldn’t keep her here, waylaying her from doing something fabulous with her life back in Berkeley. If she stayed, she might continue to enjoy herself for a while, but eventually, she’d resent the deviation from her goals.

A woman like her deserved to have everything, much more than I could give her.

So even if it killed me, I had to let her go.

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