A (kinda) Country Christmas: A Christian Holiday Romance by Phillips Krista

Author:Phillips, Krista [Phillips, Krista]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: OWD Publishing
Published: 2015-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

Eleven

“Hey, Mom, you have plans for tonight?”

Sadie looked up from the laptop where she’d been hoping to find a mistake in the most awful profit numbers she’d ever seen since Mom and Dad started letting her do the bookkeeping twelve years ago.

Nate’s ten grand was certainly good timing, because the way things were looking, she wasn’t even sure she’d be able to take a salary this month.

And December was supposed to be one of their best months.

At least the truck had gotten fixed without costing nearly what she’d feared. She’d expected to have to spend a chunk of the money on a new vehicle, but the mechanic said it was a belt or something. She knew zip about cars, so he might as well have been talking in Latin as he rambled off everything he’d done. All she’d understood was the final cost, and a few hundred bucks was music to her ears.

And she could still drive her dad’s truck. Yes, it almost qualified as an ancient relic. And it might fall apart around her ears at any point. But every time she slid onto that old, vinyl bench seat, it reminded her of him. Of squeezing between him and Mom on the way to church on Sundays. It even still had that baked in smell of the Old Spice he’d always used.

“Um, hello? Earth to Mother?”

Sadie blinked and shook the random memories from her head. “Sorry, I’m—distracted. What did you need, sweetie?”

Mari stood over her, hands on her hips, her blond hair going to and fro as she shook her head. “I need to know your plans for the evening. It’s Tuesday, so the shop will be pretty slow, right?”

Sitting back, Sadie tried not to laugh at this odd role reversal. What had gotten into her daughter? “Carla’s closing tonight, but I was going to stay and catch up on some of the books.” She had to have made a mistake somewhere. Things should not be this tight with Christmas a little over a week away.

Granted, she’d been more distracted than usual lately—it had nothing to do with Kendra’s brother though.

Nothing at all.

So what if they’d been carpooling to church every Wednesday night for play practice and started a habit of having dinner together—with Kendra and Mari too—after church the last two Sundays. Kendra still hadn’t come to church though, but had finally promised to come to the Christmas Eve service.

“Well, Kendra called and asked if we could all meet at Nate’s place tonight around seven.”

Sadie’s heart did a little rebellious skip. Silly heart. It wasn’t like it was his permanent house or something. It was just a cabin he was renting. Nothing more. Going to his place—with his sister and her daughter—was nothing to get all pitter-patter about. “Did she say what we’ll be doing there?”

“Evidently he hasn’t decorated for Christmas yet and has no plans to. Says he can just come here or walk down the Parkway to get his fill of the Christmas spirit. Kendra said that was not acceptable.

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