Chapter 5
Nathan came awake gradually, warm from the sun shining directly onto his bed. He hadn’t been thinking too clearly after running into Tess on the beach and had forgotten to close the shades last night. Replaying those few minutes with her over and over, he’d been forced to take a cool shower to shake off the yearning for her. He lay still, disoriented from being deep in sleep. He heard his door push open and the sound of dog paws padding across the carpet. With a smile, he rolled to the side, expecting to see Jessie, Hannah and Luke’s dog. Luke must have stopped by with her. In a moment, Jessie came around the side of his bed and started wagging her tail like mad. She’d stayed with them a few weeks when Luke first found her, and he and Jared took care of her whenever Luke and Han
