Closing On Christmas (Second Glance Second Chance Book 1) by Christine Zane

Author:Christine Zane [Zane, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sweet Holiday Romance, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Clean & Wholesome, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Beautiful & Feisty, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Second Glance Second Chance Series, Christmas Holidays & Celebration, Christmas Time, Holiday Whimsy, Festive Season, Winter Weather
Publisher: Christine Zane
Published: 2019-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

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JACKSON

“Wait… Jackson?” Her voice pitches in question. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad. I hope it’s good.

“It’s me,” I say. “I thought for sure our photo pose would give it away.”

“I was beginning to wonder.”

I smile and throw out candy. There’s an art to peppering the front of the crowd, but I’m no artist. A handful of my candy canes hit in one spot over the heads of all the kids on the sidewalk.

“I’m still sorry about your dress.”

“Don’t be,” she says. “Listen. I have a Christmas confession. I wasn’t a very good prom date. I was in my head all night about that dress. I know I wasn’t very fun to be around.”

“That’s not true.” I think if she’s in the mood for Christmas confessions, then it’s time I come clean. If I don’t do it now, I never will. “But while we’re confessing, I have one.”

She throws her candy canes and hardly any of them make it to the sidewalk. We’re terrible at this. She cocks her head in my direction. “What is it?”

Don’t chicken out now. My belly isn’t full of jelly. Instead, butterflies the size of reindeer swarm.

“My Christmas confession,” I say, “is that I didn’t want to go as friends. I had a huge crush on you in high school.”

Why did I add the caveat? In high school.

What about now, idiot? Don’t you still have a crush on her…

“You did?”

I nod.

We both forget to throw candy until Jen runs up beside us. “Are you out of candy canes?”

I shake my head and dig into the barrel. I throw them one at a time, attempting to hit every kid I can find on my side of the float.

“What about Ashley?” she asks.

“Ashley?” Who’s Ashley? I wonder.

“Ashley Adams. You dated her for like a year. Y’all broke up two weeks before prom.”

Eve knows more about my love life than I do. “I thought it was more like a month. And I had a crush on you before I dated Ashley. Well before.”

“It was two weeks,” Eve says confidently. “And if that’s true, then why did you go out with Ashley?”

“Because I’m a guy.” I shrug. A stupid, stupid, guy. “She asked me. I said yes.”

“It was that easy.”

I can’t tell if this is a question. Or if Eve is saying that she was interested back then—and if so, it was that easy to ask me out—or maybe she’s saying that going out with Ashley was that easy for me. The answer to all three is yes.

“But it didn’t need to be easy,” I say. “If I wasn’t such a wuss, I’d have asked you out. And I would’ve told you before prom that I wanted it to be a date.”

“But you were a wuss.” She smirks.

“That, I was.”

And still am.

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