Page 126 of The Beach Shack Promise

She’d ask Margo tomorrow, but she already knew the answer.

She looked at herself in the mirror—her grandmother’s apron, faded flowers against her Laguna Beach High t-shirt.

She pulled out her phone and texted her mother.

The apron is perfect. Thank you.

Three dots appeared almost immediately.

Send me a photo?

Stella smiled. Snapped a picture in the mirror—the apron, Shack photos visible on the wall behind her—and sent it.

A pause.

You look just like her. Nana, I mean. Same smile.

Really?

Really. She would have loved you so much, Stella. She would have been so proud.

Stella felt tears prick her eyes. The good kind.

I love you, Mum.

I love you too, sweetheart.

She put the phone down. Outside the window, she could hear the waves—Pacific waves, California waves, the same ocean that connected her to Sydney, to her mother, to all the places and people she carried with her.

She fell asleep to the sound of the waves.

And dreamed of shells, and light, and home.

Thank you for reading—andfor spending time with Meg, Margo, and the Beach Shack crew. I hope their story brought you warmth, comfort, and maybe even a little hope—just like the Shack itself.

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