Gone Baby, Gone by Sage Whistler

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Luke and Slater are best friend since they were kids. Now eighteen years old they have to face a separation: Luke is heading toward a big college in the north and Slater will take on the family business and will remain at home. There is also another reason cause Slater can't follow his friend to college: he is a werewolf and his pack thinks it's not good for him to be so far from them. But him being a werewolf is not the only secret that Slater is hiding to his friend: Slater is in love with Luke, but he hasn't the courage to reveal his feelings to him fearing to lose a friend without gaining a lover.

But one beautiful and heartbreaking afternoon, the love between them is so strong that reveal itself without notice: an embrace to comfort and a kiss that steal their soul and Luke and Slater discover that they have mutual feelings. No more than a kiss and a promise to talk, and since they are young and innocent, they take separate path to go home before their moms worry. That is the last time Slater sees Luke safe and health: he is stabbed by a thief in the parking lot and struggles against death in a hospital bed. Slater decides to turn him in a werewolf to save his life, but when Luke awakes, he fears what he is become, and ran away from all he knows, family and friends.

Three years later Slater has the chance to meet again Luke, and this time he will claim his mate forever.

A classical werewolfes story with the added bonus to have very young characters: I liked the innocence of their youth, the first kiss and the easiness they have together, something born from years of friendship and from being grown together. Plus this is a freebie you can download from the epub website, so it's even more appreciated.

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