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Total pages in book: 106
Estimated words: 99949 (not accurate)
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Lincoln
I was just there to do my job and then he arrived, and I knew in my gut everything was about to change. Everything…
For former soldier turned nurse practitioner Lincoln Arden, Pelican Bay was supposed to be just another dot on a map, and the crotchety old man he’d been hired to assist in his physical rehabilitation was supposed to be just another patient whose body was slowly giving in to the harsh reality of time.
It was just another job… one in a long list of many. One that lasted only long enough that Lincoln could do what he needed to do and then keep moving. Always moving.
But nothing about the live-in job was like all the others. Not the chaotic group of men who’d made themselves into a family, not the charming old farmhouse that sat in the middle of nowhere, and most certainly not the endless acres of trees, streams, and every other one of Mother Nature’s miracles that reminded him of the beauty of life after being witness to so much death.
He’d done it, though. He’d remained on the outskirts of that family despite the warm welcome they’d offered him from day one, and he hadn’t let his surroundings make him forget that it would be time to move on soon enough.
But then he arrived…

Theo
Returning to Pelican Bay and the past that came with it was the last thing I wanted to do, but “visiting” my former best friend would give me the time I needed to figure out where to disappear to next…
Even though Theo Lancaster had only lived a few towns over from Pelican Bay, returning to the hometown of his one-time best friend in northern Minnesota was like walking through a doorway to the past and the exact moment his life had changed forever.
Simply put, the small, picture-perfect town was the last place he wanted to be, but with no home, no friends or family to lean on, and no money, his choices had been pretty limited. Fortunately, the past that haunted his dreams night after night had prepared him for the moment by turning him into something he’d never thought he would be.
A liar.
A fake.
A fraud.

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PROLOGUE

THEO

I really was a good liar.

It wasn’t something I was exactly proud of, but I couldn’t say I typically felt a lot of guilt about spouting falsehoods.

Not anymore.

And they weren’t really lies if you were just telling someone something they wanted to hear anyway, right?

Yes, Mom and Dad, I’ve been saved by the light of God.

Yes, Father Abbott, I’ve been healed through prayer, and He has forgiven me my sins.

Yes, I am cured of my unnatural desires and am grateful to my Lord God for showing me the way.

So then why the fuck couldn’t I catch my breath as I flipped the three locks on the door, ensuring I was once again safely ensconced alone in my apartment?

Why did it feel like I was fifteen again and lying to my parents about what I’d really been doing with the boy who’d been so much more than just my best friend?

He's okay. Ford is okay.

I pressed my head against the flimsy wood and tried to focus on the sounds of the apartments around mine. The couple across the hall were shouting at each other as usual and the guy three doors down was blaring his music so loud it made my teeth hurt. I was surprised the dealer in the apartment next to mine hadn’t done something about the hip hop-loving wannabe DJ since that much noise would be sure to draw unwanted attention to our building and, more specifically, our floor.

I almost laughed out loud.

Who was I kidding? The cops, along with the rest of the world, had given up on this part of the city a long time ago. Minneapolis and its sister city, St. Paul, successfully held on to its wholesome midwestern reputation year after year but it was just like any other place. Whether by choice or by circumstance, the lost hid themselves within the shadows of the found.

I was one of those lost, though I’d spent the better part of a decade pretending to be one of the found.

Found in God.

Found in life.

Found in myself.

Bullshit.

It was all bullshit.

Just like the lines I’d fed to my former best friend and childhood sweetheart, Ford, and his good-looking cop boyfriend minutes earlier.

Ford is okay.

My body began to feel equally hot and cold as I turned my back to the door and let my body slide along the wood until my ass hit the thin carpet.

Is this okay?

I’d asked Ford that question over and over as I’d unleashed my newfound desire on his gorgeous body when we’d still been foolish teenagers who’d believed we were somehow immune to the way the world really worked. Although Ford had been older than me by six months, I’d been the aggressor when it had come to giving in to the white-hot need that had become like a living thing between us from the first time we’d kissed.

Is this okay?

I could still see Ford’s blown pupils and swollen lips as he looked down at me and nodded. I could feel my hands shaking as I desperately worked to open the button and zipper of his snug jeans. I could still taste the sweetness of his kisses on my tongue as I let my fingers drift over the outline of his erection beneath the too-tight denim.

Is this okay?

Theo, please…

Theo, please.

Those had been the last sweet words I’d heard from his lips before the hellfire that my parents and their beloved Bible had warned me about had finally come crashing down on me… on my entire world.

“Fuck,” I whispered as I let my eyes drift shut and watched the entire scene play out again in my head.

Light flooding the dimness of the athletic shed that had served as a make-out spot for Ford and me.

My fingers tightening around the waistband of Ford’s jeans as I took in the sight of his erection tenting his briefs the second the thick flesh was free of the confining denim.

Wood slamming against wood, someone shouting, my desire-muddled brain trying to play catch-up.

Then pain.

So much fucking pain.

And not just from Ford’s fist as it had connected with my cheek. No, it was the name he’d called me as I lay on the floor at his feet trying to make sense of what was happening.

There’d been a lot of pain after that. Sometimes it had seemed like every minute, every hour, every day that had followed Ford’s defection had only been about pain.

My eyes popped open long before the other images could invade my brain. I felt the strength return to my body as a different kind of anticipation made my blood burn. I ignored the whisper of a voice somewhere deep inside my head that tried to tell me there was another way.

Because there wasn’t.

Not anymore.

Not in my world.

In my world, pain meant one thing and one thing only.

Relief.

Fucking relief.

Enough relief to remind myself that I’d escaped that hellish day and the ones that had followed and, just like Ford, I was okay.

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Sawyer Hiding and running, that’s what I’m good at. It’s who I am. It’s who I have to be... For Sawyer Brower, the picture-perfect town of Pelican Bay was just supposed to be another place to take refuge for a few months before moving on. One year later finds the seemingly unflappable wildlife veterinarian settling into what’s supposed to be the quiet life of contentment he’s always wanted. But there’s nothing quiet about the arrival of the gorgeous but very bitter ex-soldier who seems intent on destroying what’s left of his life after losing his legs to an IED. Jett I didn’t just lose my legs in that godforsaken desert, I lost the man I used to be… the man I should’ve been. How the hell am I supposed to come back from that? I can’t. I won’t… While it took years of hard work and determination for Jett Sharpe to prove he deserved a spot in a prestigious military academy followed by an illustrious career in the army, it took just seconds for it to all be over. With nearly all of his brothers-in-arms lost to a roadside bomb and his own future irrevocably changed, Jett’s got little left to live for. So when his best friend shows up in Oklahoma with an ultimatum—go freely with him to Minnesota or by court order— Jett knows he has little choice in the matter. But hell if he’s going to make it easy on any of the men who keep trying to convince him he’s family. Two men running, one from the past, the other from the future… Nothing about Sawyer and Jett makes sense. Not after their disastrous first meeting and most certainly not the white-hot chemistry that keeps pulling them together. Scarred minds and wounded souls are forgotten when desire takes over, but masks have a way of settling back into place for two men who have nothing real to hang on to. Can Sawyer and Jett let the walls that are keeping them safe within themselves fall or will they miss out not only on each other, but the very thing the town of Pelican Bay is offering them? A place to call home.
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CHAPTER ONE

SAWYER

“Jerry, so help me God, if you take a shit on me—”

“Ooooh, Uncle Sawyer, you said a bad word again.”

Fuck.

Since I was currently bent over the small hoof of one of my least favorite patients, it was easier just to take an upside-down look between my legs to confirm that I’d once again been caught in the act by the Bad Word Police. The sight of bright red sneakers and matching red pants with orange lightning bolts running up the side of them confirmed that I was out another dollar for my infraction. I sighed as I gave Jerry’s hoof another once-over before releasing the zebra’s hind leg.

“Newt,” I began as I straightened and turned to face the little boy.

“No do-overs or takesies-backsies,” the child declared, then he stuck a small glass jar through the rails of the fence.

“What, you’re carrying the swear jar around now?” I asked with mock outrage as I fished out my wallet.

Newt shrugged and shook the jar a bit. A few coins jingled but the majority of the space in the container was taken up by dollar bills.

My dollar bills.

“Uncle Dallas said to bring it with me since I was coming to see you,” Newt announced. He used his free hand to stroke Jerry’s black muzzle. The normally ornery zebra, who I was sure was the devil reincarnated, nuzzled Newt’s hand. The black and white striped menace had spent much of my short visit with him trying to take bites out of my ass, but with Newt, the four-legged spawn of hell was all soft whinnies and doe eyes.

My gaze shifted to the sleek white wolf sitting quietly at Newt’s side. The large animal was nearly as tall as Newt, yet I knew, like Jerry, the creature was completely entranced by the little boy.

Of course, it didn’t take much to fall head over heels for the five-year-old. He might not have been related to me by blood but being his unofficial Uncle Sawyer wasn't any kind of hardship. I probably should've considered it strange that I felt more like a true uncle to Newt than I did to my actual nephews and nieces, but given that I barely spoke to my siblings, it was no wonder that my relationship with their children didn't go beyond the obligatory birthday card complete with a gift card or $50 bill. In the early years, I'd actually gotten a thank you card in return, but those too had fallen by the wayside. I wasn't really sure why I was keeping up the pretense.

The jangling of the swear jar reminded me of the task at hand. I sent Newt a pretend frown as I begrudgingly put the money into the jar. "Don't go spending this all in one place," I told him.

"Can't. Mad says I gotta keep some for college." Newt shrugged. "He says at the rate you're going, I'll be able to go to Harr… Harr…"

"Harvard?" I supplied.

He nodded eagerly. "Twice," he added.

I managed to catch myself before I called Newt's quasi-second father a colorful name. I didn't even dare mumble the word under my breath because Newt had the hearing of a bat.

"'Sides, I don't want to go to Harv-ed."

I braced my arms against the top of the fence. "Oh yeah, how come?"

"'Cause I'm gonna have my own Lightning and drive really fast. And I'm gonna play the vi-lin like Uncle Nolan and I'm gonna help take care of all the animals like Mad and Uncle Dallas and I'm gonna draw and color like Uncle Ford and arrest the bad men like Uncle Cam."

I found myself smiling as he rattled off all of his future career tracks. Not one of the men he'd named was related to him in any kind of way, but they were all his family. Hell, they were all my family. I still didn't even know how that had happened. It was pure luck that I’d ended up in Pelican Bay, Minnesota, but the fact that the small town was barely even a dot on the map had made it all the more appealing. Simply put, I'd wanted to get lost. I'd wanted a fresh start, to begin life anew without the heavy weight of expectation and constant self-doubt on my shoulders. I'd pictured a solitary lifestyle in a no-name town where no one wondered or cared who I was.

I'd gotten the fresh start part, but there was nothing solitary about my life. I wasn't even sure how it had occurred, but I knew who was responsible for it. The same men who'd taken Newt and his older brother, Isaac, into their lives had taken me in as well. No questions asked, no expectations of something in return. It was something I still found myself doubting on occasion. How many nights did I still lie awake in my bed too afraid to fall asleep for fear that I'd wake up and find that it had all been a dream? That I was back in the too-clean, too-sterile, too-perfect oceanfront beach house that had served as my prison for so long?

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I’m not a fighter. I never was. So how do I make the one man who might just be worth fighting for see that? At twenty-five years old, Ford Cornell should have his whole life ahead of him but instead, the would-be artist is drowning in denial and just trying to get through each day. And the boy who once believed life was about following impossible dreams has finally come to accept that it’s really only about surviving a living nightmare… one of his own making. But the bruises are becoming harder to hide. So is the truth… I refuse to fall for a guy who won’t accept the truth about who he is or what he wants. Not again… They say bad things happen in threes. For Sheriff Camden Wells, it’s more like fours… or fives… or dozens. After an ugly lie destroys his career and the man he’d planned to spend the rest of his life with cuts him to the core with the ultimate betrayal, forty-year-old Cam is counting on his new job as sheriff of the quiet town of Pelican Bay to be the fresh start he needs. What he isn’t counting on is meeting a young man who makes him want to break all his own rules. He wants me to accept something that will cause me to lose everything. I may not have much but it’s something and something is better than nothing… right? Ford’s gotten used to his role as his older brother’s punching bag and being his mother’s never-ending disappointment. They may not be the Cleavers but family is family and Ford’s seen up close and personal what happens when you don’t have anyone in your corner… or when you go against family. And there’s just no way he’s strong enough to survive that… Nothing about us should make sense but maybe that’s why it does… Two men… one living a lie and one knocking down the walls of the closet he was forced to live in for so long. When one white-hot encounter leads to another and then another, Ford and Cam are forced to accept that their need for each other isn’t going away anytime soon. But being together means one will need to go against everything he believes in. So which man will bend and which will break? And what will the truth ultimately reveal?
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Chapter One

Cam

“I need to speak to your son, Mrs. Sullivan,” I said tiredly as I automatically dropped my hand to the butt of my gun where it was resting in the holster. I wasn’t really expecting any trouble, but after almost twenty years working as first a beat cop and then as a detective in one of the most violent cities in the country, it was habit to always be prepared.

And while the small town of Pelican Bay was about as far as you could get crime-wise from Detroit, safety and geography never went hand in hand. Bad shit happened to people no matter where they lived, and I’d attended too many funerals of fellow officers who’d been gunned down without any kind of warning to underestimate any situation, even when it was doing something as seemingly benign as what I was doing at the moment.

Following up on a noise complaint.

Although since it was the Sullivan house, I suspected noise wasn’t the issue.

Just like it hadn’t been the last time.

Or the time before that.

“You can’t keep hassling my Jimmy like this, Sheriff Wells,” Edith Sullivan snapped impatiently. “You’re abusing your authority and I won’t stand for it. My daughter works for—”

“A lawyer,” I finished for the older woman. “I know, ma’am,” I said. It was all I could do to keep the irritation out of my voice. “And I’m not here to speak to Jimmy. I’d like to speak to your other son.”

Edith’s eyes narrowed slightly, but instead of arguing with me, she turned and yelled “Ford” over her shoulder. It didn’t surprise me in the least that she didn’t bother sticking up for her other son. Nor did it surprise me that the seemingly quiet, polite, God-fearing woman sounded like a screaming banshee when she wasn’t surrounded by her church-loving brethren.

“What’s he done?” Edith asked as she turned her attention back to me. There was no concern or disappointment in her voice… just curiosity.

Like she was asking about some random stranger, not her own kid.

“That’s between me and your son,” I said simply.

She harrumphed at me and then closed the door in my face. I sighed and waited because I knew that as impatient and annoyed as the woman was, she wasn’t foolish enough to ignore my order.

No matter how much she hated me.

I automatically glanced around me to survey my surroundings. Jimmy’s shiny black vintage Dodge Charger sat in the driveway while Ford’s rusty beater car hugged the curb in front of the house. The disparity in the cars mirrored how different the two brothers were.

Admittedly, my opinion was based on only a few encounters with both men, so it was entirely possible that I was off the mark and Jimmy and Ford Cornell were more alike than I thought.

No.

That was all my inner voice chose to say on the matter and I let out another sigh. I had an annoyingly straightforward subconscious that never fucked around with me. And I’d learned long ago what happened when I ignored the damn thing.

Because the fucker was always right.

Well, that wasn’t quite true… there’d been a time when I’d been a kid where that inner voice hadn’t been so unerringly accurate. And there’d been plenty of times since then that I’d tried to convince myself that my inner voice was wrong about something.

Like Carter.

An automatic sting of betrayal went through me and I actually began rubbing at my chest as if I could ease the pain that seemed to encapsulate my heart.

Told you so.

“Shut up,” I said under my breath. I turned my attention back to the door when I heard muffled voices on the other side. It took another good fifteen seconds before the door slowly opened.

I was glad when my inner voice didn’t repeat the “I told you so” comment because it was all I could do not to react to the man in front of me as it was. It helped that Edith was standing just behind him, glowering at me.

“Don’t keep him,” the woman snapped at me. “He’s got chores to do before he drives me to church.”

Edith turned on her heel without any kind of show of support or encouragement to her son. For Ford’s part, he didn’t seem to be expecting it because he didn’t turn to watch his mother depart.

“You wanted to speak to me, Sheriff?” Ford asked quietly as he held the door open and tried to hide half his face behind the closed part.

Which meant the half I was seeing wasn’t even the worst of it.

I bit back the urge to reach for him and pull him out of the house… and then keep right on walking away from it with him.

“You mind stepping out here, Mr. Cornell?” I asked. The use of his last name sounded all wrong on my lips, but I’d refused to call him by his first name after our initial meeting. It was my desperate attempt to keep my attraction in check and my emotions under control.

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Coming home should be the easiest thing in the world, but I've never felt more lost... When his stellar military career comes to an abrupt and terrible end, thirty-two-year-old Maddox Kent returns to the town he never planned to step foot into again, hoping to mend the rift he himself caused with the brother he left behind. But coming home means facing some hard truths about himself and his actions. When he has the chance to start making amends by helping his brother with the wildlife sanctuary he runs, Maddox is thrown another curveball when a stranger appears... As long as we keep moving, everything will be okay. That's what I keep telling myself, anyway... For twenty-one-year-old Isaac, Pelican Bay is only supposed to be a stopping point on the trek from San Francisco to New York. With his little brother, Newt, in tow, Isaac is just looking to make things right by returning something of value to a person he wronged. But "getting lost" in the next big city proves to be a problem when the brutal Minnesota winter claims Isaac's car and strands him and Newt at the animal sanctuary. When the owners of the place offer him a job, a desperate Isaac agrees, despite the presence of a man Isaac instinctively knows could be his downfall... It should be so easy to let him go, but I can't. And not just because I want to protect him... Nothing about Isaac makes sense to Maddox. Not his piercings or makeup or flashy clothes. And most certainly not the snarky mouth that doesn't match the vulnerability Maddox sees in the younger man's eyes. But one thing does make sense to the hardened former soldier. Isaac is running from something, and Maddox's gut is telling him not to let Isaac and little Newt go until he can ferret out the truth. But having Isaac around means trying to make sense of something else Maddox isn't expecting... his own body's response to the beautiful younger man. Aside from their explosive chemistry, nothing about the straitlaced soldier and the secretive misfit works. But maybe that's exactly why it does... ***NOTE: Can be read as a standalone (no cliffhangers) but more enjoyment may be had by reading book 1, Locked in Silence, first.
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Prologue

Isaac

Snow.

So much fucking snow.

Like… everywhere.

I held my breath as the car suddenly skidded to the right.

“Are we gonna crash?”

“No, buddy, we’re not,” I said over my shoulder to my little brother. I didn’t dare look at him because I was too busy wrestling with the steering wheel. Weren’t you supposed to steer into a skid or some shit like that? Wait, that was for ice, wasn’t it? Did that even work in snow?

“Oh,” Newt said from the back seat, sounding disappointed. “Lightning McQueen would’ve crashed and still won the race.”

I smiled at that even as I felt my stomach drop out when the car chose that moment to jerk in the other direction.

“You think Lightning would like Minnsopa?”

“Minnesota,” I corrected. “I’m not sure, buddy. I think as long as he had Mater, Sally, and the rest of the gang with him, he’d like any place.”

“’Cause they’re his family?” Newt asked.

“Yep.” I let out a breath as the car stopped sliding around. Unfortunately, my attention was once again drawn to the sputtering sounds the engine was making. The heat hadn’t even bothered to kick in when I’d gotten the car started back at the Grainger place. I had a feeling it was the car’s way of telling me to just let her go already so she could cross over to the other side.

The idea of a bunch of old cars frolicking in heaven had me snorting. I doubted Pixar would be making a movie about that anytime soon.

“What?” Newt asked.

“Nothing,” I said.

“Where’s our family?”

All my humor died at the question.

Good question, buddy. But of course, I didn’t say that.

“We’re each other’s family, Newt.”

“Just us?” my brother asked. “Shouldn’t we have a big family like Lightning?”

Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve, I thought with a sigh. “Families come in all sizes, buddy. Just ’cause it’s just us doesn’t mean we aren’t as cool as Lightning’s family, right?”

He was silent for a moment before he said, “Lightning doesn’t have a mommy and daddy, either.”

I felt my heart drop into my stomach at his words. I was saved from having to say anything when Newt flopped his head back against the seat and groaned, “Are we there yet?”

“Almost,” I said. “Look, there’s the sign Mrs. Grainger was telling us about.” Newt whipped his head around, but his height and all the junk in the back seat made it impossible for him to see. “Lake Hills County Wildlife Rescue and Sanctuary,” I read out loud so he wouldn’t feel like he’d missed it.

“You think they’ll have elephants? And lions? Can you ask if I can ride one of the elephants?”

I laughed. “I don’t know if they have elephants, but even if they do, how are you going to get up there?” I asked.

I made the turn onto the road that appeared to be the sanctuary’s driveway as Newt began coming up with ideas.

“A ladder?” he asked.

“Hmmm, maybe.”

“Your shoulders?”

“Don’t think I’m tall enough.”

“Maybe you could tell the elephant to lie down so I could get on?”

“I don’t speak elephant,” I reminded him. He giggled. His laughter always did funny things to me and I selfishly wanted more of it, so I began coming up with outrageous ways for him to get up on the fictional elephant’s back. “Parachute? Rocket? Tidal wave?”

The car slogged through the deepening snow, but fortunately didn’t do much more than groan and sputter as we made our way along, foot by agonizingly slow foot. After several minutes I was certain the driveway led to nowhere, when the trees cleared a bit. I noticed a couple of people standing by a pickup truck near a nondescript building that didn’t look like much of anything. My nerves started to get the better of me as I remembered why we were here.

God, Nolan Grainger was going to fucking hate me.

And that was assuming he didn’t try to throw my ass in jail the second he realized who I was.

I needed to make this quick. Get in and get out.

“Buddy, I need you to stay in the car,” I said as I pulled in beside the pickup truck. There were two guys next to it and I instantly recognized one of them as Nolan. I’d seen his picture often enough to know him anywhere. Guilt went through me as I realized I was a big reason Nolan was out here in the middle of nowhere in the dead of winter, instead of back in San Francisco or off in some exotic city showing the world how incredibly talented he was.

“But I wanna see the elephants,” Newt complained.

My eyes shifted from the two men next to my car to the guy who was closer to the front of it. My belly dropped out at the sight of him.

God, he was a fucking tank.

A tank that looked ready to spit nails.

“No, stay in the car,” I murmured to Newt as my eyes met the man’s through the windshield.

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I’ve spent years hoping someone would finally hear me. It’s easier not to try anymore… Ten years after leaving his small Minnesota hometown in his rearview mirror for what Nolan Grainger was sure would be the last time, life has decided to throw the talented musician a curveball and send him back to the town he lived in but was never really home. At twenty-eight, Nolan has traveled the world as a successful concert violinist with some of the best symphonies in the country. But success breeds envy, and when Nolan’s benefactor and lover decides Nolan has flown high enough, he cruelly clips Nolan’s wings. The betrayal and ensuing scandal leaves the violinist’s career in shambles and with barely enough money to start fresh somewhere beyond his vindictive ex’s powerful reach. But just as he’s ready to get his life back on track, Nolan gets the call he’s been dreading. After a stroke leaves his father a partial invalid, duty-bound Nolan returns to Pelican Bay and a life he’s spent years trying to forget. When he’s forced to use the last of his own money to keep from losing the family home, desperation has him turning to the one man he’d hoped never to see again… Even if I could speak, there wouldn’t be anyone there to listen… Pelican Bay’s golden boy, Dallas Kent, had the quintessential perfect life. Smart, gorgeous, and popular, the baseball phenom was well on his way to a life filled with fame and fortune. But more importantly, he had a one-way ticket out of Pelican Bay and far away from the family who used love as currency and whose high expectations were the law of the land. But a stormy night, sharp highway curve and one bad decision changed everything, leaving Dallas with nothing.
Books in Series:	Pelican Bay Series by Sloane Kennedy
Books by Author:	Sloane Kennedy Books

Prologue

Nolan

God, I hated the cold.

Hell, it wasn’t even that cold yet, but October in Minnesota and October in sunny California were two very different animals. Of course, pretty much everything was a different animal when it came to pitting the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes against the Golden State.

“Slow down, Nolan,” my mother groused as she leaned across the console and lifted her glasses enough so she could study the speedometer. “You’re not in Hollywood anymore,” she reminded me as she leaned back and focused on her knitting needles once again.

Don’t do it.

Don’t do it.

I chanted the words to myself several times and then did it anyway.

“San Francisco,” I murmured.

Why, Nolan? Just why?

I shook my head at my inner voice because I didn’t have an answer for that.

“What, dear?” my mother asked without looking up.

“I was in San Francisco, Mom.” I took my eyes off the road long enough to glance at her. “San Francisco, not Los Angeles.”

She didn’t answer. She just took her hand off one knitting needle long enough to wave her hand.

Dismissed.

As usual.

I sighed and forced my attention back to the road. I was never going to make it. I’d been home for less than twenty-four hours and I felt like I was going to bust out of my skin.

Home.

Knowing my mother wouldn’t notice, I shook my head. Pelican Bay, Minnesota wasn’t home for me. It never had been. Yeah, I’d spent my first eighteen years here, but it hadn’t ever been home. At best, it was purgatory.

A harsh comparison? Maybe. But after having experienced the freedom that came with living anywhere but Pelican Bay, I supposed I was just a little more than biased about the subject.

My mother clucked her tongue as she glanced at the radio. “Need to be home by four or I’ll have to pay Mrs. Kellogg for another hour.”

I wasn’t sure what to say to that comment. I certainly couldn’t tell her what I wanted to. That we wouldn’t be late if she wasn’t such a control freak when it came to driving. Or that maybe if she hadn’t spent an extra twenty minutes complaining to anyone who would listen at the medical device supply company about the price of the walker we’d gone there to purchase, we wouldn’t be running behind now.

So, I settled for staying silent since it was really what she wanted, anyway.

My stomach rolled uncomfortably, but I knew it wasn’t from anything I’d eaten today.

“Mrs. O’Reilly is coming over tonight to pick up her casserole dish. She doesn’t know about…you know,” my mother said with another wave of her hand. “The incident,” she added, lowering her voice.

I forced myself to take a deep breath.

I’d heard that word more times than I could count in the last twenty-four hours and it made me want to scream every time.

“She thinks you’re just home for a visit. No need for her to know about…the incident.”

I bit into my lip to keep my mouth shut this time.

“I’ll be going to Edith’s for bridge, so you make sure to thank her and tell her I’ll call her tomorrow.”

I didn’t answer, and she clearly wasn’t expecting a response because she began humming to herself.

Fifteen more minutes.

I just had to get through fifteen more minutes and then we’d be home – no, not home. That word didn’t fit. The house – we’d be at the house. Fifteen minutes and we’d be at the house and I could have a few minutes to myself.

I let my eyes scan the quiet road around us. Dusk was already threatening to fall, signaling the start of what would be a long, brutal winter. A winter I had no clue how I was going to get through.

Tall trees lined the winding road, so it wasn’t until I rounded a curve that I saw it. The small lump in the middle of the road. I shifted the steering wheel so the tires wouldn’t roll over the body of the poor raccoon that hadn’t been quick enough while attempting to cross the road. Just as I was about to avert my eyes so I wouldn’t have to take in the gruesome sight, I saw another bundle of fur moving, and I instinctively slammed on the brakes and jerked the steering wheel to the right, causing the car to violently swerve.

My mother let out a gasp as the car careened along the shoulder before skidding to a stop.

“Nolan!” she shouted as her purse and knitting needles went flying. “Watch out!”

I ignored her and put the car into park as I tried to catch my breath. Adrenaline surged through my blood. I lifted my hand to adjust the rearview mirror, ignoring my mother as she scolded me with some comment about the terrible driving habits I’d picked up in Hollywood.

My eyes settled on the dead raccoon and I once again saw movement.

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