A Cowboy for Christmas by Kelsey Hodge

Author:Kelsey Hodge [Hodge, Kelsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9 – Austin

So there was no way that I was going to admit this to Colt, but he’d been right, having a real Christmas tree in the house is amazing. The smell of it seems to have spread to every room. The house smells like Christmas.

It’s been two days since we came back from the Christmas tree farm. All ten trees had been placed in the barn. Two outside, and eight inside, all set in different places. We had them all decorated already. It didn’t take us long to get them finished because there wasn’t a huge amount of decorations, but they still looked good. My favorite thing that we, well no, I purchased at the farm was a huge Christmas wreath. I had seen Colt staring at it, knew that he wanted it, and I also knew that it would look so good above the barn door.

Holly had explained that they were a new venture this year. Made with branches from trees that couldn’t be sold. So, she stripped the branches off and made them into wreaths. They even came with lights, not something Colt was aware of, he just thought it was for display purposes. Colt hadn’t been happy I bought it, especially when it just barely fit in the back of the truck once all the trees were in there. He kept saying that the trees were enough.

When we had gotten back to the ranch and spent far too many hours getting it in place, Colt had to admit that it did look good, and that he was glad that I had bought it. That it had been nice to add something new to the festival.

But that was two days ago now, and we really hadn’t spoken much. We had been so busy that I’m amazed that we had any time to eat. Between collecting the donated toys that Santa would give out, to sorting out the animals, I was exhausted. Especially as I was staying up later working on my surprise.

“Austin!” And I can’t help the smile that is already on my lips at hearing Colt shout my name.

“Living room!” I yell back from my position on the floor.

At the moment, I have all the toys laid out in front of me, and I’m trying to organize them into ages, so that age appropriate toys are given out. Something that’s taking me a lot longer to sort out than I had planned, and they still need to be wrapped. Maybe I can persuade Colt to stay and help.

“Hey,” I say over to him, as he walks in the room, but then he stops dead in his tracks.

“You haven’t decorated the tree.”

“What?” And I follow his line of sight to my tree in the corner. “Oh, no, not yet.”

“Why the hell not?”

“Because we’ve been busy.”

“That’s not a good enough excuse. Mine is all done. I couldn’t leave it bare like that,” Colt adds, and he genuinely looks appalled that I haven’t decorated it yet.

“Colt, I still have no decorations,” I argue.

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