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Hawke had looked stricken when he’d re a decision we needed to ether, but I’d let him off with a smile and a shake of my head and had sent him back inside the store to pick up soh a list of superhero names and finally settled on another X-Men favorite, Storm, for the female puppy

The day after Matty and I had arrived in Wyooodbyes to Ronan, Seth, Mav and Bullet Ronan and Seth were headed home to Seattle for some alone time while Mav had plans to explore soe Harley Davidson nment I’d learned very little about the heavily tattooedblack hair except that he fit the stereotypical biker to a T Hawke had told me that he knew little about Mav’s personal life, but I hadn’t missed the respect he held for the man The fact that he didn’t appear to have a horeatly, but he’d declined our invitation to dinner the night Seth and Ronan had left We’d spentthe town of Rocky Point and the surrounding area and at one point e’d taken a short walk to check out Hawke’s property, he’d taken my hand and veered us off the trail we’d been on I hadn’t had any clue what he’d wanted to show me and Matty, but it had beco by a sle headstone beneath the branches of a huge tree

Hawke hadn’t said much as we’d stood there, other than to explain that he and Revay had spenton the sand drea of what their future would hold Matty had been uncharacteristically solemn and I’d nearly lost it when he’d moved around me to stand on Hawke’s other side so he could hold his hand too Hawke and I had spent the rest of the night after Matty had gone to bed talking about our plans for the future and I’d been both worried and excited when he’d said he thought Seattle would be a good place for us to settle I’d tried to tell him that we could make a life in Rocky Point after Matty’s treat that we needed a fresh start…all of us His only request had been that I be okay with hi the property since it here Revay was buried And when I’d asked about his pursuit of Buck and Denny, he’d simply told me it was over and I’d left it at that

We’d ht, but unlike the other tiether, it was unhurried and we spenteach other in a way that wasn’t completely sexual I’d discovered that for all his brawn and beauty, Haas supre every one ofwe’d ended up deciding on a spur of the moment trip to Yellowstone National Park which was just a couple of hours away Matty had been in heaven as we’d explored the park both on foot and by car, but the highlight of the trip had been e’d spotted a black bear and her two cubs crossing the road about a hundred yards froht in a hotel and had spent the rest of today exploring before finally heading home

Hence the exhaustion

We’d just reached the porch when I heard Matty calling forable to find the puppy

“It’s okay, I’ll go,” I said to Hawke as he started to follow me “Can you put the pizza in while I check on him?”

Hawke nodded “Can you grab e it”

“I told you not to show hiames on your phone,” I said with a chuckle

“Yeah, you did,” Hawke acknowledged “What can I say, the kid’s got er Hoas I supposed to know he’d play theroused as he cliot ether”

I shot hi towards the side of the house where I’d last seen Matty headed with the puppy A twinge of concern went throughacross the field towards a large, run down barn that Hawke had warned Matty not to play around