Christmas at Mistletoe Cove: A heartwarming, feel good Christmas romance to fall in love with by Holly Martin

Author:Holly Martin [Martin, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 9781786812858
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2017-09-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Dougie looked down at Eden as they waited in the queue for the ice slide. That conversation in the sleigh had put him on edge.

She was expecting it to end between them.

As far as she was concerned she was enjoying it all now because it would end in the not-too-distant future.

She didn’t trust him and that hurt.

They’d both said they loved each other and in his book that meant forever for them. Why did she doubt that?

He’d hurt her after their first kiss on the beach all those years before, he’d hurt her by never mentioning it again as if it meant nothing to him, when nothing could have been further from the truth. He’d never told her how he felt, never given her any indication that he had feelings for her over all the years he had been away. This was all out of the blue for her, so maybe he just needed to give her time to get used to the idea. It hadn’t even been a day since he’d told her he loved her.

He hadn’t planned for any of this. He thought he would kiss her and if she kissed him back he might pluck up the courage and ask her out. They’d date for a few weeks, maybe months, while he tried to get her to fall in love with him and he tried to convince her that he was good enough for her and then eventually he would tell her how he loved her. But now they’d both said they loved each other, it seemed they had skipped ahead several months in his plans. And it was wonderful and it was everything he had ever imagined it would be and so much more and a little scary if he was honest. He’d only been back four days and he was in a full-blown relationship already.

There was no way he was walking away from it though. He wanted forever with Eden and that was scary too because could love really endure, could it really last for the rest of their lives? His parents were proof that love wasn’t everlasting. His uncle had had an affair with Bella’s mum even though he was supposedly happily married. What if he was like his mum and ended up just walking away from the marriage? What if he was like his uncle and wasn’t content to stick to one woman for the rest of his life? He had never been in a relationship that could be considered serious, he’d never wanted forever with anyone before. Could he really give Eden that?

She looked up at him and smiled and he felt a surge of love for her. Yes he could. He would do everything he could to keep her, to make her happy, to make her trust him so she would believe in forever too.

What would it take for her to believe in them, to trust in their future together?

She wanted marriage and children and though the marriage part scared him, the children part didn’t.

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