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FORBIDDEN
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Hailey
ABBOT
Contents
Chapter One
Julia
1
Chapter Two
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22
Chapter Three
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33
Chapter Four
Several hours later, Julia
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Chapter Five
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65
Chapter Six
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72
Chapter Seven
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Chapter Eight
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91
Chapter Nine
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Chapter Ten
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109
Chapter Eleven
“Yo, Jules! Toss me those blueprints!” Beau called up to…
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Chapter Twelve
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bedroom,…
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Chapter Thirteen
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Chapter Fourteen
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Chapter Fifteen
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Chapter Sixteen
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Chapter Seventeen
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touches…
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Chapter Eighteen
The music at the Fishtail was pumping at earsplitting volume… 170
Chapter Nineteen
When the footsteps were directly behind her, Julia
Chapter Twenty
“Aw yeah!” Randy called as Julia
Chapter Twenty-One
For the next few days, Julia
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Chapter Twenty-Two
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Chapter Twenty-Three
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Chapter Twenty-Four
The next day, Julia
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Chapter Twenty-Five
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It had been…
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About the Author
Other Books by Hailey Abbott
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Chapter One
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Julia
Although Chloe’s tone was light, Julia
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sigh. She hunched her shoulders, shoved her hands deep into the pockets of her faded Citizens, and grumbled. “It doesn’t matter. I’m sure by the time we get there someone will have snatched up the beach rights and we’ll have to head back home anyway. I mean, it isn’t about who’s been here the longest. If some arrogant jerks with buckets of money decide to, oh, I don’t know, build a massive addition onto their huge glass house, they can just take over the beach to do that any time they want—
right?”
“Oh, Jules . . .” Chloe sighed, lacing her fingers through the belt loops of her denim miniskirt. Julia
Over the past few years, wealthy families, enchanted by the beauty of the beach, had begun moving into the neighborhood en masse. It seemed that a new mansion was springing up around them practically every month.
With each new mansion came a new lawyer knocking on the door trying to cajole, guilt-trip, or bully the family 2
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into selling their land so that the new neighbors could build some “really amazing” hot tub, cabana, or heliport on the beach.
“We’ll be okay,” Chloe continued, turning toward the ocean. “It’s been our house for thirty years; no one can take it from us. Mom and Dad had their first date on our beachfront, they got married in the house, we have both lived our entire lives there, and Mom . . . well, you know.”
Neither girl wanted to finish Chloe’s sentence.
Although their mother had been dead for several years, the house was still full of her creativity and warmth.
“I don’t know,” Julia
Servants’ quarters? A horse stable? What else could they possibly need?”
“I know. I don’t trust them either,” Chloe conceded.
“But we can’t do anything about it tonight, so we might as well enjoy ourselves.” They had stopped moving 3
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toward the party, and Julia
“Ooh, don’t I get to look behind door number three before I decide?”
“Nope, that’s it. You can learn to love it or you can learn to fake it,” Chloe chirped, enumerating Julia
Laughing felt like gulping huge mouthfuls of air after being underwater for a very long time.
“Okay, then,” Julia
“Um, Jules?” Chloe swept her hair back off her shoulders and arched one well-maintained eyebrow toward her younger sister. “You don’t have a middle name.” Julia
“Okay. So, do you remember Jess and Molly? From 4
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Kappa Delta?” Chloe had rushed the sorority her first semester at UCLA and already had more friends than Julia