A Snowflake Wish by Renee Harless

Author:Renee Harless [Harless, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The previous night had been fun with her parents and Deckard. Unlike most events with her family, January didn’t feel overshadowed by her siblings and their amazing achievements. Not even her parent’s grilling Deckard about his life and job made January feel any less significant. Of course, how could anyone fault a man that was a doctor and looked as dreamy as Deckard did?

Her mother was smitten with him after he explained how he was helping his grandparents during the solstice season at their shop. Her dad fell for the man when Deckard offered to help remove a fallen tree from her parent’s backyard. As if she hadn’t already felt like she was falling head over heels for him, her parents had to approve of him too. It was only going to make it so much more difficult when he left on the twenty-fifth.

She had ushered both Deckard and her parents from her house after they finished the pizza, much to Deckard’s surprise. But she was struggling coming to terms with how she was feeling and what she knew was going to happen when he left. January needed space and time to think if she was willing to risk the hurt.

When she woke the following morning she texted Deckard and declined his invitation to spend the solstice celebration with him and his family. He continued to message her after the initial declination, but January was too embarrassed to answer. She ended up spending the morning in bed feeling sorry for herself.

Lying in bed reading a book seemed like a good way to keep her mind off her new boyfriend and how she was being a complete bitch to him at the moment, but of course, the book she was finishing up from a year ago was an epic romance that left her crying at the end of the story.

She had thought about taking a long bath, or wrapping herself in a layer of blankets and settling in a chair on her back porch watching the snow fall, but neither of those seemed appealing. She was depressed about the fact that she was falling in love with a man that was going to leave. Her heart set her up for failure. January thought that maybe there was something she could do to get him to stay, but there wasn’t much that she, or Pineville, could offer him.

This feeling was slaying her and she felt she had no say in how her future would turn out. But January knew better; she had changed her own future, she had changed it for everyone.

Lazily, she finally made her way from the bed to the couch where she snuggled under a heavy blanket and turned on a channel of sweet romance movies, determined not to leave that spot through the afternoon and evening.

So thoroughly engrossed in a scene playing on the screen she almost missed the knock on the door, but when the door opened without her assistance, January knew she had to reason to worry.

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