Home Matched (Salt Lake Pumas Book 4) by Camellia Tate

Author:Camellia Tate [Tate, Camellia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Helena

MARCH 5TH, 2009

I could count on one hand the number of people who believed that Sam and I would graduate high school still very much in love. Charlotte, obviously. She’d become my best friend within a few weeks, and had always supported me in everything. Sam’s family, too, had been great. Spending time in their kitchen had made me feel at home in a way my parents’ tastefully decorated dining room never had.

It wasn’t that my mom and dad didn’t like Sam. They’d just made it clear that high school relationships didn’t last. We would grow up, they’d promised, and realize that we wanted different things.

In some ways, they were right. Sam’s dearest ambition was to play professional hockey. He’d moved away right after graduating, being drafted to a team in Edmonton. As different as hockey might seem from getting a university degree, there were similarities, too. We were both ambitious. We both knew what we wanted.

For Sam, it was hockey. For me, the dream was to get accepted to the University of Toronto to study law. But first, I had to finish my undergraduate degree.

I’d always liked studying, and it was exciting to leave home and try out adult independence for the first time. But I missed Lunengrove far more than I thought I would. And on top of that, I missed Sam.

Which was why, when he picked me up from the airport, I practically threw myself into his arms. He caught me, just like he always did, leaving my suitcase on the ground as he lifted me up and planted a tender kiss against my lips.

“Take me home,” I demanded. Even now, Sam’s house felt more home-like to me than anywhere in Toronto. “You didn’t make plans to go out for dinner, did you?” I doubted Sam would’ve done that. He knew I liked to spend my first night with him at his house, not in some busy restaurant.

“Of course not,” he confirmed before turning to give me a grin. “I’m very well trained,” he informed me with a wink. It made me laugh. There was some truth to it. Sam knew what I liked, we’d dated for years. Growing up together had its benefits.

Sam caught me up with who on the team was doing what, how everyone was, which games that I hadn’t caught on TV had been better than others. I loved listening to how passionately he spoke about hockey, it always made me smile.

It felt like no time at all before we were pulling up outside Sam’s house. He rented it but even so it was huge. There was absolutely no need for him to have such a big house and we both knew it, but it was still pretty cool. We were young; having such a huge house to ourselves felt amazing.

“Everything’s just as you left it,” Sam joked as we walked in. It was two months since I last visited. Things really did seem just as I had left them, which made me frown.

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