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The story blends tender, intimate dialogue with anxiety over Angelo’s health and guilt from a recent rehabilitation period. As they travel away from Truro, their conversation reveals the central role of Harry, Angelo’s physiotherapist, and frames the emotional stakes for what comes next—especially the pressure of an upcoming Christmas reunion.","PRAISE FOR GARRETT LEIGH  \n“Emotional and brilliant  ”  \nALL ABOUT ROMANCE  \n“Tastefully erotic …more smart than smutty…”  \nPUBLISHERS WEEKLY  \n“Powerful and compelling…”  \nFOREWORD REVIEWS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCROSSROADS  \nA SKINS NOVELLA  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nGARRETT LEIGH  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2018 by Garrett Leigh All rights reserved.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.  \nCover Art: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design  \nEditing: Posy Roberts @ Labyrinth Bound Press & Con Riley  \nProofing: Vanessa North, Annabelle Jacobs  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nPATREON  \nDREAM-A Short Excerpt  \nWHISPER-A Short Excerpt  \nBELIEVE-A Short Excerpt  \nMISFITS-A Short Excerpt  \nLUCKY-A Short Excerpt  \nAbout GARRETT LEIGH  \nAlso by GARRETT LEIGH  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSo much love if you’ve made it this far, I hope you enjoy my very best attempt at a festive happily ever after…  \n(See, I can be nice.)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nONE  \nDylan paced the draughty seating area of Truro train station, clutching a paper cup of cinnamon-spiced coffee from the dodgy Costa stand. It tasted like soap, but he hardly noticed. Back home, coffee was his drug of choice—lifeblood when the chaos of reality frayed his nerves—but he wasn’t in Romford now. He’d left the city behind, and within the hour, he’d get his reward . . . if anyone ever showed up to give him a lift.  \nHe circled around the glass entrance doors again, scanning the traffic outside for a familiar vehicle. When he found none, he pulled his phone from his pocket and scanned his message threads, wondering if he’d missed something—instructions to make his own way to Newquay or any clue who was picking him up. Over the past few months, he’d seen them all—Harry, Joe, Emma, even old George in the stinky horsebox. But the WhatsApp chats revealed nothing. Just a vague notion that someone he recognised would be there to meet his afternoon train. Someone who was either late as fuck or had clean forgotten.  \nFuck it. Dylan eyed the taxi rank. He could’ve done without spending twenty quid, but—  \n“Hey.”  \nRelief punched Dylan in the gut. He whirled around. Blinked. And threw himself into the embrace he’d been dreaming of all the way from London. Clutched the lithe, sinewy body against him, and buried his face in silky hair that smelt of real coffee and grass.  \nI’ve missed you.  \nI loveyou.  \nI know.  \nFor a long moment, they simply held each other, until Dylan pulled back to check his Angelo-starved imagination wasn’t playing tricks on him.“God, it’s really you.”  \nAngelo laughed.“Who else would it be?”  \n“Everyone. You’ve never come to the station before.”  \nSmoky brown eyes clouded with guilt.“I’m sorry.”  \n“Don’t be. Shit. That’s not what I meant—I just wasn’t expecting to see you for a little while longer.”  \n“Oh.” Mollified, Angelo grabbed Dylan’s hand to tow him out of the station.“Come on then. Let’s get out of here.”  \n“Wait! I need my stuff.” Dylan doubled back and grabbed the hold-all and messenger bag he’d hulked on the train. He shifted the larger bag out of Angelo’s reach but gave up the one carrying his laptop.  \nHarry’s car was outside, but there was no sign of the man himself. Dylan cocked an eyebrow.“You drove?”  \n“Uh-huh. I do have a licence, you know.”  \n“I know that, you just haven’t driven for, like, a year.”  \nAngelo rolled his eyes. “I don’t need to back home when everything’son our doorstep. Down here I have to ask for a lift anytime I run out of lube, so Harry lent me his car for a while.”  \nA while. Dylan’s stomach clenched as he stowed his bag in the boot of the borrowed Ford Focus. 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