Gifts of Love by Natalie Ann

Author:Natalie Ann [Ann, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-10T06:00:00+00:00

17

Someone Special

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Brendan pulled into Lane Tree Farm and shouldn’t have been shocked there wasn’t a place to park.

It was a beehive of activity with people looking at pre-cut Christmas trees and those cutting their own walking in the distance. His family had never done that before and it was something he’d always wanted to do. He wondered why he hadn’t it since he’d been on his own.

Maybe because he didn’t think it’d have the same effect if he did it alone as with someone special. And there had never been anyone special before.

He finally found a place to squeeze into when someone else pulled out, then made his way to the greenhouse that would have been open to start collecting gifts at eight. During the week, Lane’s didn’t have the staffing to watch the building that far out, nor would he want them to even pay someone.

Instead gifts were collected at the main building, set aside and Lane’s staff brought them to the greenhouse when they had time. He’d already made one trip over to get a big collection in just the first week.

This was the first event they were holding and Holly had told him last night when they had dinner that black Friday had brought people out in droves dropping off toys.

When he looked around the greenhouse, he was stunned to see every tree that Nancy had put up was overflowing with toys several feet out in each direction. The main staging area was packed with even more. The greenhouse had only been open for two hours.

On the weekends, he had staff that volunteered to work and collect from eight until five. His staff was great that way and he was thrilled to look around and see his mother getting ready and setting up supplies.

It was ornament decorating day. His mother probably went overboard, but it was for the kids and a great cause.

Tables were jammed together at one end, folding chairs set up, and boxes of wooden ornaments that kids could choose one from, then paint, glue, or draw on, and take home along with sheets of Christmas-themed coloring pages.

Each table had everything from crayons, markers, paint, glue, glitter, even fuzzy eyes and mini Santa hats. His mother was like a kid in the candy store when it came to stuff like this.

“Hey,” he heard and then felt a hand on his arm.

He turned to see Holly standing there, then leaned down to give her a kiss on the lips. She looked shocked by his move prompting him to ask, “What’s wrong?”

“People are watching us. Like your mother and sister. Some employees.”

He looked around and caught the smirk from his sister, his mother’s grin. When he turned his head, some employees were laughing, others not paying attention. “What’s the big deal?”

“I didn’t know if anyone knew about us.”

“My sister and mother do. I don’t make it a habit of announcing to my staff when I’m dating someone though.”

In his eyes they were dating too.

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