Searching for Home by Megan Linden

Author:Megan Linden [Linden, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
ISBN: 9781786518071
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Published: 2019-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

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“I thought you knew where this lake was,” Ollie said when Patrick cursed after taking a wrong turn and was scolded by the GPS voice navigation.

“I do. I just don’t know how to get there by car. I found it when I was out on a run.” Patrick turned the car around at the first opportunity and soon they were back where they were supposed to be.

Ollie raised his eyebrows. “That had to be a really long run.” He estimated they had to be closer to Linwood now than to Hills, and even for a werewolf, it was quite a distance.

“Yeah, well”—Patrick glanced in the rear-view mirror—“I had a lot of energy to expend that day.”

It finally clicked for Ollie that Patrick had likely found it over the weekend, and with what he’d told Ollie about his Saturday, he’d probably gone for a run right after leaving the Alpha’s house. Ollie could only imagine how he must have been feeling if he’d pushed himself so hard. There was no way he was going to ask Patrick about it, but he knew now that Patrick’s explanation had been the cleaned-up version of what had really happened.

Neither of them spoke for a while, Patrick being too focused on the road and Ollie thinking too hard about the man by his side. He wanted to learn more about him and hoped that he would, slowly and in time. He knew a bit about what made Patrick laugh, what made him…if not happy, then at least content. But Ollie wanted to know about what made him hurt, too—what made him sad or anxious or angry.

“Okay,” Patrick finally said before stopping the car in the shadow of the trees on the side of the road. “That’s as close as we can get by car. We need to walk the rest of the way, but it’s not far from here.”

They left the car and put on their backpacks, then Ollie gestured Patrick toward the forest. “By all means, lead the way.” If he was left to figure it out on his own, he would be lost in less than five minutes.

Fortunately, Patrick had no such problems. Ollie would have liked him to be a little more considerate about the fact that he was leading a human, not a werewolf, but once Patrick saw Ollie struggling to scale the rock formation on their way, he slowed down and tried to make things easier for him.

After about a ten-minute walk, they came up right at the edge of the lake and Ollie took a step back, bumping into him. Patrick steadied him with hands on his shoulders and Ollie would swear the touch lingered longer than necessary. He wasn’t complaining, though. He wished he could lean back against Patrick’s solid frame and for Patrick to bring his arms around his waist, maybe pull him closer.

“It’s nice, right?” Patrick whispered instead.

Ollie blinked and looked around. The water was clear as he glanced at the surface and it made him want to jump in immediately.

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