Cold Snap (In From the Cold #1) by Lee Brazil

Author:Lee Brazil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: anthology, serial, collection, gay romance, gay mystery, gay suspense, pulp friction
Publisher: Lee Brazil

Chapter Five

Monday morning arrived too soon for Cannon's convenience. He hadn't managed to bury his embarrassment over the weekend's events yet, and he had no choice but to face Scott, and possibly even Finn, who he'd avoided at the hospital on Sunday by checking himself out against medical advice and taking a taxi to a hotel, not the charming Weatherford, but a dubious little mom and pop motel on Route 66 that smelled of lavender and bubblegum and had sheets like sandpaper. The proprietor had been kind, and the room warm, and he'd been lucky to get it as skiers had been flooding the area in the wake of the recent "powder accumulation".

He couldn't avoid Finn forever, but he needed time to settle his nerves and figure out how to explain himself to the man. How fucking bad was his luck lately that his one-night stand turned out to be not just a colleague from the university—that was bad enough in retrospect, but he'd figured they wouldn't meet much on campus—but also a close neighbor? He'd known the name Finn sounded familiar, and maybe pretending to remember why hadn't been his smartest move, but he'd been lust-blinded that night at the Weatherford, there just wasn't any other explanation for how he could have failed to put together what Finn was saying and realize that of course he lived at Mountain Shadows if he answered the phone there. Who else would the owners ask to look out for the place but a resident?

He'd asked the bleary-eyed desk clerk for a wakeup call at the crack of dawn, gulped a gallon of foul 7-Eleven coffee and met a car dealer at a Subaru lot by eight. By nine, he'd driven off the lot with more confidence in a newly leased four-wheel drive behemoth of a vehicle. It responded well, but sitting up high after driving the Shelby exclusively for so long made him feel like a hippo in a tutu.

Finn Lorensson was right though. He felt immeasurably safer driving this car. The roads didn't seem anywhere near as dangerous, though he couldn't bring himself to break forty on the highway and slowed to a near crawl when he took the Mountain Shadow exit.

The closer he got to the resort the faster his heartbeat, and he couldn’t tell what it was that created the reaction. Take your pick, he sneered at the white-faced man in the rearview mirror. The return to the scene of the accident would be traumatic, seeing the damage to his beloved car, going to his house and finding…

Surely to god if someone were in there they'd have gone by now?

He breathed a sigh of relief when the lodge came into view and pulled into the dirt lot. It was well cleared, and the lodge appeared as welcoming as it had on the day he'd picked up his key two weeks ago. God, was it only two weeks?

Cannon checked his watch. Ten-fifteen. He was only a few minutes late, and

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