A Bear For Christmas by Kassandra Cross

Author:Kassandra Cross [Cross, Kassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

I’d convinced myself it was never going to happen, but I learned the hard way that even denial catches up with you in the end.

They’d never had a bad marriage, and so it was a shock to me more than anything when one day they came home and told me it was over. I had stood there in the kitchen looking from one of them to the other, waiting for a punchline that never came…

I was sure it must have been a joke, but no one was laughing… and in the end it really wasn’t funny.

“You’ll be okay,” my dad had said as I watched him packing his bags in the dressing room.

He was sweeping in suits still on the hangers in big armfuls and ditching them into his matching monogram cases. The half-light drifted in from the hallway and cast shadows around the room that were more comforting than being able to see his face. Because I already knew he was gone, and nothing was going to change that.

“I’ll still see you all the time,” he said matter-o-factly, as I were the one who was being unreasonable. As if I were such a burden on him and the life he had waiting.

I bit my lip willing to taste blood and tried to stop the tears from welling up behind my eyes.

How could any of this even be happening?

We were a happy family and we always had been. My dad didn’t have affairs and he didn’t lie.

How had he ever had the nerve to do this to us?

When he’d finished packing, he stood there shifting from one foot to the next and he still couldn’t look me in the eye.

“I’ll be in touch then,” he said with a sigh before he turned on his heel and disappeared into the hallway.

I could hear Mom’s sobs drifting up from the front room and my blood ran cold. There was nothing I could do about this even if I wanted to.

Never mess with free will.

It was rule number one of our ancient law, and everybody knew that.

But it still didn’t make me feel any better.

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