Free Free Fall (Free Fall Vol. 1): (Loving Summer #6: The Donovan Brothers #3) by Kailin Gow

Prologue
     
    Nat’s Letter to Summer
     
    My
Perfect Summer,
     
    It’s
been years since we’ve seen each other. I know since I left, my intel tells me
you have finished college, gone unto med school, and even work at a hospital in
Los Angeles. I am so proud of you, of all your accomplishments, and how you’ve
become the woman I’ve always dreamed you would be. It makes my decision to
leave years ago worth it hearing how you’re fulfilling your destiny and living
life to the fullest. The only regret I have is feeling as though I’ve missed
out on so much of your life. I left trusting that my good-for-nothing little
brother Drew would take good care of you, and from this wedding invitation in
my hand from both of you, I trust that he has.
     
    I
am honored to be the best man at your wedding. I will be there next week at
Aunt Sookie’s Malibu Pad for the rehearsals. You two can count on me to be
there for both of you.
     
    Love
Always,
     
    Your
Nat in Shining Armor
     
     
     
    Summer
     
     
    I’ ve read Nat’s letter to me over again for the
hundredth time, and held it up in my trembling hands close to my chest. Nothing
these days can get my hands to tremble the way it was trembling right now. I
was known to have one of the steadiest hands in the country. It got me on the
fast track to become a neurosurgeon at USC, where I also went to medical
school.
    I
could not believe Nat will finally be back at the Pad after being gone for nearly
10 years. 
    In
a flash, I could remember the last time I saw him as though it was just
yesterday. It was the day after Drew and I spent the night together at Drew’s
place, a modern penthouse suite built on top of the Donovan Dynamics Los
Angeles building.
    Being
that it was the location housing most of the data servers containing valuable
and highly classified top secret information, the building was one of the most
secured and safe places in the country. It was also the most logical place for
me to move to following the threat I received from my old stalker and his
international hacker ring friends who were also into other illegal and far more
dangerous activities.
    Nat,
who had undergone a complex identity change, and who was the main target of the
revenge plot by that group, stayed in one of the rooms set up for him by Drew
at the building.  It was down the hallway, but out of sight. Although the place
had an appearance of a typical office building in Los Angeles, less than a half
an hour drive to the beach and to Aunt Sookie’s Malibu Pad, where I lived, it
was not open to the public, for obvious reasons. So…having Drew, Nat, and I in
the same place all under one gigantic roof was like being home once again, as
we were when we spent our summers at the Pad as children. 
    We
had the entire building to ourselves, yet Nat was just down the hallway from
Drew’s room, and I…I spent the night with the Donovan brother I thought I would
spend the rest of my life with. It was the hardest decision I have ever made in
my life, being in love with both for so long, but it was one I had to make so
the one who had to leave…could move on. 
    Could
let me go and pursue his own life’s goals.
     
                I
loved them both – Nat and Drew in their own ways, but I had to let one of them
go.
     
                Nat
had chosen a life’s path that placed him in constant danger, and Drew…Drew and
I had an incredible chemistry and friendship that enhanced the love we have
always had for each other for years.
     
                After
“choosing” Drew, and getting Nat’s blessing, in a way, Drew and I spent the
night together. When we finally opened Drew’s bedroom door to see if he wanted
to get something to eat, he was already gone.
     
                Not
a note or a letter as he usually leaves.
     
                Not
even a pen.  The room was empty.
     
                “Nat?”
I called.