Another Snowbound Christmas by Veronica Tower

Author:Veronica Tower [Veronica Tower]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Erotica/Romance
Amazon: B007J75YIU
Publisher: Red Rose Publishing
Published: 2011-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Eleven

“Is everyone all right?” Al asked as he squeezed past Mama onto the front walk. Al was a large African-American man with skin as dark as Kara and Ruth's and a touch of gray in his hair. “What happened? Kara did you fall down?”

Without waiting for an answer he turned back toward the house and called past Mama. “Marc, get out here! There are presents all over the front lawn and I need you to help pick them up.”

Marc was not the kind of son who normally enjoyed doing chores around the house but this time he came running. “Presents?” he asked.

“Right here,” Ron called to him. He wiggled the one he still held beneath his arm. “This one is for you and your sister. Careful, it's fragile.”

Marc jumped down the front steps, slid precariously on his heels for a moment, and then hurried over to take the gift from Ron. “Thanks!” he said before immediately turning to his mother. “Can I open it now, Mom?”

“I believe that Ron said it is for you and your sister,” Ruth reminded him.

“But it's a game system, Mom!” Marc told her.

Kara frowned. “How do you know that?” she asked. She looked at Ron, wondering if he had let the secret out while they were at church.

Ron shrugged. “He's a kid,” he said. “They have ways of knowing.”

“You taped two smaller gifts to the top of the package, Aunt Kara,” Marc explained. “Based on their size, they're either DVDs or video games. I'm guessing games because this box isn't the right shape for a DVD player.” He lifted the package between them. “And that would make this a new game system.”

“My son, the genius,” Al said. “If only he could put this sort of effort into his school work.”

“It's not a game system,” Ruth told her son. “We have spending limits in this family and they are nowhere near large enough to cover a new gaming system.”

Kara cringed. She couldn't help it.

Unfortunately, Ruth saw her do it. “Kara?”

“We might have used Ron's family's spending limits this year,” she confessed.

“You did not!” Ruth told her, even though it should be obvious to everyone listening to them that they had.

“Yes!” Marc said, pumping his fist in triumph. The gesture almost caused him to drop the present, but he rescued it at the last moment.

“That's enough from you, young man!” Ruth told her son.

Ron reached down and picked up the package Kara had dropped and handed it to her. “Certainly is cold out here,” he observed.

Ruth, of course, ignored his attempt to change the topic. “Because if that present costs too much, it is going right back to the store. You do not need another expensive game system.”

Ron picked up the package he had dropped. “Ruth, lighten up. It's Christmas!” he told her.

Ruth whirled on him. “You will not interfere—”

Ron pulled Ruth's gift out of his pocket and thrust it at her. “Merry Christmas, Ruth!” he said. “Kara and I thought you and Al

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