An Unexpected Christmas by Shannon Richard

Author:Shannon Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641970624

Making women cry was not one of Jace’s favorite past times. Not at all. Over the years there’d been more than enough tears that had been shed over him, usually when he was ready to move on and the woman in question was not. Sure, it made him feel like an asshole, but what else was he supposed to do? Stay with someone because he felt badly?

That would make him an even bigger asshole.

But those occasions of breaking women’s hearts were few and far between these days. Lately, the ladies he was with knew the rules, and accepted that he wasn’t Mr. Right, but was instead Mr. Right Now. No commitment, mutual fun, move on.

That was his MO…and why Adele had rightly stated he was a manwhore.

He wasn’t interested in the whole commitment thing. He’d seen firsthand what a one-sided relationship consisted of, seen what it was like for his mother to love a man who’d never loved her back. In the year or so before she’d died, he was pretty sure she’d given up on the whole thing and become resigned to her fate. She chose to stay to keep his life stable.

He wished she wouldn’t have stayed. Wished they would’ve left and she could’ve been happy, at least at the end of her life.

Her sacrificing her happiness hadn’t been worth it, not to him. Not for him. Which was why he’d chosen to not sacrifice his own happiness. And really, in the end, the other person wasn’t going to be happy either. So why prolong the inevitable when there was no future?

That wasn’t his thing, thus the occasions where he ended those encounters and the women cried over him.

But something Jace hadn’t experienced was someone crying for him. At least, not in the way Adele had just cried. It affected him in more ways than he’d been prepared for. Way more.

He’d already felt a little raw after opening up about his mom; a topic that once he’d started talking about he hadn’t wanted to stop talking about. Maybe it was because it had been so long since he’d really shared her with someone, and sharing her with Adele had felt right.

But then again, everything with Adele felt right.

Before he’d known what was happening, he’d really started to open up. And then he’d gotten to that day, a day he never talked about, but he’d told Adele all about it. About what they’d been doing when his mother had the stroke…her last moments…his father.

The king of the assholes.

Jace had lost more than his mother that day. He’d lost any chance of a relationship with his father. As far as he was concerned, he’d become an orphan that day.

At first, he’d just been filled with anger, an anger that he couldn’t let go of, an anger that had isolated him. It had been his hockey coach who’d pulled him back from the ledge, got him to channel that anger on the ice.

He might’ve found a way to deal with the anger, but he’d still kept people at arm’s length.

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