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

“Nat…”
Drew joined in. “We’re getting something to eat. Want to come with us?  Oh
yeah, you’re not supposed to be seen with us…new identity, so do you want us to
pick up something for you?”
     
                Silence.
     
                Drew
took long strides into the Nat’s room, checking out the bedroom, the
bathroom…anywhere where Nat could be, and walked over to me.  “He’s gone.”
     
                I
walked into Nat’s room and looked everywhere as if I had to see it for myself
instead of taking Drew’s word for it.  It was empty.
     
                “Maybe
he just went out for an errand,” Drew said walking up to me from behind and
placing his hand on my shoulder.
     
                I
shook my head.  “No, I think this is it. Nat is going back to being his new
identity.” I felt tears in my eyes.  For one crazy, strange, and dangerous
night; Drew and I got to see our old Nat once again.  Now he was gone…and who
knew when and if he would ever return to being our Nat again.
     
                As
I clutch his handwritten letter to me – he always wrote letters the
old-fashioned way because he thought they were more personal, I had a strange
but peaceful and warm feeling envelope me as though the letter provided this
glow of light, of warmth.  Our Nat was returning home as Nat. Finally Nat would
be back.
     
     
     

 
    Chapter 1
     
    Drew
     
     
    I didn’t think it would happen…that Summer
would get a response to her invitation and letter sent through Lamar, Nat’s FBI
contact, to Nat. 
    Dammit,
Nat, it finally takes Summer and I getting engaged and getting married to get
you to acknowledge our existence. 
    I
knew Nat loved Summer something fierce, but I didn’t think that he would
disappear the way he did upon finding out Summer chose me over him.  And for ten
Fucking Years!
    As
manly as I am, even I was devastated by his disappearance act. Gone once.  Here
again, and then gone in a blink of an eye.  A real magician, my brother.  Like
some kind of modern ninja. Even the security cameras at our building Donovan
Dynamics couldn’t capture him leaving the building.  Whatever training he got
from those ex-Seals, ex-Special Ops, ex-Best of the Best military guys when he
went undercover to save Dad, it seemed he excelled in it, as he always did with
everything. 
    Computer
genius. High School football hero. Model perfect son to Mom. Dad’s right hand
man. And Summer’s first love and crush. 
     
    Nat
was always that kind of guy.  So…when he was set on disappearing from his old
life as Nat Donovan, son and heir to Donovan Dynamics, he did a fine job disappearing
too.  A too good of a job that even our Tracers, the specialist we have at
Donovan Dynamics, who are able to follow and find traces of any leads on people
and information, couldn’t find Nat.  I should know, the guy himself, trained
them. So when Nat wanted to disappear, he disappeared. No question about it.
Except when he wanted to be found.  Ten freakin’ years, Nat!  It took you that
long to finally be able to accept Summer was now with me.  Ten years was a very
long time for all of us. I’ve finished college, finished getting my MBA from
Stanford, took over as CEO of Donovan Dynamics for Dad so he could retire and look
after Mom, and now have my own homes in the San Francisco Bay area, Malibu, New
York, London, Paris, Hawaii, and wherever Summer and I wanted to spend time at
together. 
    Summer…she
was and still is the best thing that ever happened to me.  She turned this
scrappy bad boy into a man. I love her so much, I get tears just thinking about
how much I do.  She is my everything, and to me, ten years wasn’t even enough
time for me to spend with her. To me, it would take a lifetime and more to ever
get enough of her. If I was away from her for over ten years like Nat was, I
would have changed so dramatically, I wouldn’t even