Christmas Comfort (Hot Holidays Series) by Rachel Dunning

Author:Rachel Dunning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic, humor, christmas, adult romance

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"He seems like a fine young fellow," Mrs. Conway said to her son Jeff in the kitchen. They were bringing out desserts to finish off the afternoon's get-together.

"Told you he was." Jeff leaned back on a counter, eating more cookies than he should.

"It's time Jacquie settles down. This business of raising a boy on her own..." Mrs. Conway shook her head. "It's just not right. She deserves someone who'll treat her right. Not like that last...bugger! Oh, he makes me so mad when I think of him!"

She was referring, of course, to William's father. A man of low responsibility and yet endless virility. One of the few men who received the blessed honor of having Mrs. Conway actually utter a curse every time she spoke of him.

Mrs. Conway might be well into her sixties, but she was no fool. She understood a younger woman's needs. She didn't blame her daughter for her escapades. As far as Mrs. Conway could see, Jacquie had done a right good job raising that boy the way she had. She knew Jacquie was no hussy. She was just...misunderstood.

Little Jacquie had pride. And because of that pride she chose to stand on her own two feet instead of having some fool philander around and make an idiot of her.

Good on her for leaving the...bastard!

There. She'd cursed twice now because of him. Urgh! Bloody fool!

That's three.

It had been a year or more since Jacquie had put herself out there. She was always careful. Always put her son first. Mrs. Conway knew her daughter picked her men studiously. Well, more studiously since she'd learned her lesson with...him. She knew, as well, that many of the women of today thought first with their bodies and then with their hearts. Not as it had been in her day. Oh no.

But she was with the times. She could appreciate that things had changed. It was not her place to say if it was for the better or the worse. Things were simply as they were.

As for actively working to put her daughter and a man together, now that was something she'd never done! Take the boy to Nora's place? Hah!

She'd had a "feeling" about this Mr. Mitchell. He'd all but transformed Jeff's life from nobody to high corporate flyer all those years back.

They'd had a difficult time of it before that—the Conways. All of them. Jeff's marketing skills had not been wanted at home by English companies. Mrs. Conway's own husband had long since retired, weak in the knees and frail in the back.

They were pensioners.

Although she hadn't asked for it, Jeff had taken on the role of family patriarch and provider. But, out of work for two years, he'd been on the verge of taking his wife and daughter away to Ireland or America or, God forbid, Germany of all places!

No self-respecting Englishman goes off to Germany to provide for his family.

Mr. Mitchell took a chance on Jeff. Mrs. Conway knew how close she'd come to rarely seeing her son because he'd be working abroad, how close she'd come to missing out on her grandson growing up.

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