Bring Me Home: A Dad's Best Friend Small Town MM Romance (Safe Harbor Book 1) by Annabeth Albert

Author:Annabeth Albert [Albert, Annabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-26T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Monroe

In all my years with the navy, I’d never had a real homecoming. Sure, my dad and his wife had attended my graduation from the academy, but it wasn’t the same as a special someone waiting at the docks or hangar for a return stateside. And when Knox beamed at me, glowing with pure pleasure, I finally understood what I’d been missing.

“You’re back.” Looking freshly showered with damp hair, Knox was almost to the bottom of the back stairs as I entered the kitchen.

“I am.” I had to brace because he launched himself into my arms for the tightest hug ever. Like I’d been gone three weeks, not three days. Warmth spread from my chest, down my arms and fingers, every spot that touched Knox melting like ice in July.

After giving me a sound kiss, Knox scooped up the cat lurking near the stairs. “Wallace missed you. See?”

“Just Wallace?” I was tired and in dire need of a shower, a beer, and a bed. And Knox in said bed. But then Knox made the cat wave at me, and I couldn’t help grinning, my tiredness replaced by a near-giddiness at being back in the presence of the guy I…

And there I had to stop. There were words I couldn’t let myself think, let alone feel.

“You know I missed you too.” Setting the cat down, Knox gave me a longer, deeper kiss that made me forget all about being hungry and thirsty. “Hotel room phone fun notwithstanding, it was too damn lonely in the big bed here. I had to go sleep on the third floor last night.”

“Aw. Poor baby.” I chuckled, mainly at Knox’s blush at the mention of the phone sex we’d had two nights ago. “I had to turn a pillow sideways on the left side of the hotel bed.”

“We’re a pair.” He shook his head at me, expression fond but exasperated, exactly the one all the happy longtime couples I knew used. And I’d never wanted that either. No homecoming. No attachments. No wedding bells. But then I’d danced with Knox at Kale and Eric’s wedding and watched Knox climax on the hotel balcony, and I could have sworn I heard distant chimes. The entire weekend in San Francisco had made me long for everything I’d never wanted before. I held his gaze, trying to soak up another few seconds of undiluted happiness until he rolled his eyes and kicked at the tile. “So…when are you going to tell me what you found out? I’m dying here.”

Knox was now as invested in this case as Holden and I, demanding updates, offering suggestions, and celebrating the breaks along with us. While in Florida, I’d reviewed a bunch of case records not available online, interviewed a few people connected with the case, and been granted a short, frustrating visit with the chief suspect.

“The threads are tenuous, but they’re there, and they keep adding up.” I leaned against the counter as Knox moved to the fridge. He passed me a sparkling water before studying the contents of the vegetable drawer.

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