A Magical Holiday Romance by Tami Franklin

Author:Tami Franklin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calava Press
Published: 2017-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Carter spent New Year’s Eve sitting on Noah’s couch, eating leftover Chinese food, and watching the celebration in Times Square on TV. Noah and Lydia had tried to lure him out to the celebration at The Lodge, but he’d declined. After spending the day with Kenzie and the kids, he’d returned to Noah’s alone.

He sighed as the crowd in Times Square celebrated, but refused to give in to despair.

He was making progress. It was slow. But it was progress.

It started three days earlier—the day he left home. Or rather, the day Kenzie had kicked him out after he screwed everything up so royally. After checking in with Sandi, he’d gone by the bank and spent some time trying to come up with a way to deal with the credit card problem he’d caused. It was no big surprise—although he wished he’d realized it sooner—that he and Kenzie were not rolling in the dough. Between the two of them, they managed to pay their bills and really had very little debt, other than a car payment and the credit cards—the balance of which Carter had managed to more than double with his two-day spending frenzy.

Carter had vowed at that moment not to wallow in his mistakes. Instead, he went back to the house in the guise of having forgotten something, and searched through his dresser drawers for a couple of items he was certain he would still have, regardless of the reality he might find himself in.

When his hand closed on the velvet box tucked under his rolled-up socks, Carter breathed a sigh of relief as he recognized it immediately. Before she died, his grandmother had given him the box, telling him to use the contents however he saw fit. He’d always kept it. Even in his other life the box was always tucked deep in his duffle bag. He opened the box, categorizing the items inside quickly. Flipping it shut, he slid it into his coat pocket. He’d have to decide later what he would keep, and what he would sell.

Carter had left the house and gone straight to the office. The paper would go to print the next day, so he had to go over the layout and make sure everything was ready on time. The morning passed in a blur of e-mails and phone calls, as well as frantic knocks on his office door by his assistant editor, Ben Garza. It had been a while since he’d worked on a print publication, so he was grateful for the young man’s knowledge and enthusiasm.

During a lull in activity, Carter pulled the box from his pocket and studied the items nestled against the black velvet. Two sets of gold cufflinks winked back at him. One pair was oval-shaped with lapis set in the gold, a thin gold band crossing over the blue stone. The others were jade, slightly smaller, with a twisted gold border. Both dated back to the early twentieth century and Carter knew collectors would go crazy over them.

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