CHAPTER 13

‘You said it again, my heart is in motion

Every word feels like a shooting star

I'm at the edge of my emotions

Watching the shadows burning in the dark

And I'm in love, and I'm terrified

For the first time and the last time

In my only life…’

Everly woke up to Lennon gently shaking her shoulder. She needed a minute to figure out where she was… with whom she was…

“Are we there?”

“Yes, Everly. I didn’t want you to miss the best view of it…”

Lennon had told her once that he lived on a large property an hour outside of Boston. She’d pictured a showy mansion in a gated community. The typical rock star house…

But Lennon surprised her… Showy mansions were not his case… There was a gate at the front of the road across his property, but it stood wide open. Heavy, green foliage arched over their heads, and the house at the end of the road, blended perfectly into the setting around it.

It was huge but simple and faintly rustic. Huge windows glinted in the f