Two dudes. A sleeping bag. An island full of penguins.

I've waited years for the amazing opportunity to study Adélie penguin chicks on a remote Antarctic island.

I have waited even longer -- ten years -- for Sam Beckett, the older, stoic Alaskan boat operator who taught me everything when I first arrived from Russia. He has been driving me crazy with his dark eyes and his silence and his complete refusal to feel anything.

I've known I want him since I was fifteen, but Sam? I wouldn't know what Sam wants. He never says.

I guess I should just settle on being friends.

But cooped up in a tiny tent in the middle of heavy rains, sharing the only sleeping bag we have left, in the middle of a colony of chaotic penguins, I start to see fractures in the man who never cracks.

The colder it gets, the bolder I become. When a medical crisis threatens my life, it shatters him.

Even the icebergs eventually melt. Sam is only a human.

Tropes:

• Ten years of pining

• One sleeping bag

• Friends to lovers

• Age gap

• Chaotic sunshine / stoic older man

• First time

A steamy, low-angst, fun standalone short read of 19,000 words with HEA.

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