Down the Hidden Path by Heather Burch

Author:Heather Burch [Burch, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503948099
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Goodreads: 25392770
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

David’s eyes were sparkling like melted gold; his cheeks were bright red apples. Miah had stopped the snowmobile to show him one of his favorite winter things. He hooked an arm around David’s shoulder and pointed across the lake. “Look at those icicles.” They were at least ten feet long and latched to a rock embankment that overhung the lake.

“Those are cool.”

“Yeah.” Miah slipped off the snowmobile, but David stayed on, resting his gloved hands on the handlebars. Miah gave him a smile. “My friends and I used to come down here and watch as they melted. Sometimes one would drop into the water. It was awesome.”

“You grew up at the lodge?”

Miah dusted the snow from David’s shoulders. “No. Had a friend who lived down there.” He pointed to a trail running along the lake. “I’d stay with him whenever we thought there’d be a snow day. Some of my other friends would meet up with us.”

David chewed the inside of his cheek. “I don’t really have a lot of friends at school.”

“No?”

David shook his head. “They’re all so immature.”

Miah threw his head back and laughed. “Is that so?”

David shrugged. “Yeah.”

“The key to having a friend is being there for him when he needs you most. Know who taught me that?”

David shook his head.

“Your mom.”

David frowned. “You knew Angela?”

“I meant Gray.”

“Oh. She’s my birth mom.”

Miah didn’t really see the need for the distinction, but okay. “Your birth mom taught me that.”

David chewed his cheek. “But she said she didn’t really have many friends growing up.”

“Let me tell you something about your birth mom, David. She was the best friend I ever had. She was with me during some of the hardest times of my life. She may not have had a lot of friends, but the ones she had, she was fiercely devoted to.”

He watched as David gnawed on that for a while. “Like she’s devoted to me?”

Miah winked. “Exactly. You want to drive home?”

His eyes turned to saucers. “Seriously?”

“Sure.”

A smile curved his face. “Okay.”

Miah gave him a quick lesson.

David tugged his stocking hat over his ears. “What’s down that way?”

“We used to call that the Hidden Path. If you follow it along the lake, you’ll pass a log cabin and if you keep going, there’s a cove. At the edge of the cove is a small graveyard from I don’t know how far back. We always joked that it was haunted.”

“Cool. Can we go there?”

Miah pointed at him. “You’re driving.”

He knew David was still mustering his courage to take the wheel, so he launched into another story. “One winter we had a really hard freeze and a deep snow. My friends and I were all out on the snowmobiles and we’d missed like two weeks of school. One of them got the bright idea to try to take the snowmobile across the cove.”

“Did he sink it?”

“No. He floored it and went straight across. Then, he decided that if the rest of us were real men, we’d follow him. Stupidest thing I’ve ever done.

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