The Girl On The Half Shell (47 page)

His boyish eyes start to twinkle above an endearing smile. I stare at him. Chrissie: he knows my name. SB thing? He’s from Santa Barbara too. I study him more closely and I just can’t place the face. I know I know the face, but I’m not connecting the dots, and I’m not tapping into that instinct thing telling me if I use to like him or I should run.

He frowns. “Now I’m hurt.”

Crap, he can see I’m not remembering him.

He tosses his unfinished burrito into the bag. “Do you forget every really, really cool guy who does you a really, really big favor?”

I feel my heart drop to my knees. Really, really cool guy….Oh crap! Neil Stanton. Yep, I definitely remember him. The jerk from that night Rene and I went clubbing at Peppers before spring break. The guy who thought he needed to give me life advice after making a fool out of me. In my memory I can still hear him saying Didn’t Daddy teach you anything about how the world works.

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About the Author

Susan Ward is a native of Santa Barbara, California, where she currently lives in a house on the side of a mountain, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She doesn’t believe she makes sense anywhere except near the sea. She attended the University of California Santa Barbara and earned a degree in Business Administration from California State University Sacramento. She works as a Government Relations Consultant, focusing on issues of air quality and global warming. The mother of grown daughters, she lives a quiet life with her husband and her dog Emma. She can be found most often walking at Hendry’s Beach, where she writes most of her storylines in her head while watching Emma play in the surf. The Girl On The Half Shell is her twenty-fifth novel.

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