Uncharted

Name: Uncharted
Author: Romeo Alexander

89 pages

RENO
Jake is nearly seven feet of muscle and terrible jokes. I’ve never slept better than I do beside him.
We share beds. We cuddle. We give the guys at our search-and-rescue outpost plenty to joke about.
We’re also straight. I kissed two guys in college to make sure.
You have to check your hypothesis more than once.
Then we try kissing under the stars. His first attempt barely counts, so I pull him back for another.
Suddenly I want a hell of a lot more than cuddles.
Jake’s taking it all in stride. Of course he is.
Now I can’t stop wanting his hands on me. It’s afterward, when my brain catches up, that everything gets complicated.
He’s my best friend. He’s already had to tell his mom she can’t adopt me.
Jake’s who I’d call if this went to shit.

JAKE
I don’t remember throwing Reno toward the riverbank before the dam broke. He does.
He’s alive, I’m in a cast, and he’s furious that I nearly got myself killed.
Now I need his help taking a shower.
That part has its perks.
He helps me through the nightmares, puts up with my sulking, and somehow makes needing him feel okay.
Momma always said that to be seen is to be loved. Reno’s been proving her right for years.
He keeps kissing me like he’s already decided, then getting lost in his head again.
I can wait.
But I want him to call me his boyfriend as easily as he calls me a dork.

Uncharted is a steamy, standalone M/M romance in the Ridgeline Station series, featuring best friends to lovers, a double awakening, a gentle giant who needs holding too, found family, wilderness danger, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

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