Have Yourself a Curvy Little Christmas: A Perfect Fit Holiday Novella (A Perfect Fit Novel) by Jamison Sugar

Author:Jamison, Sugar [Jamison, Sugar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year …

Dina watched Ben as he adjusted Dash’s hat over his ears and fussed with his coat. Dash just kind of stared at Ben in wonder as they walked through the quiet, snowy streets of the small village that surrounded Windermere. Dina looked at him in wonder too. He cared about her son. The cynic in her really wanted to distrust Ben, like she distrusted all men. He was a stranger. But there was something about him. He was good with Dash. And for the first time in his young life Dash had somebody else who was willing to love him. That was one of her fears as a single mother. That her son would grow up with only her to love him.

And then Ben came along. And even though they had just met, even though the circumstances were crazy, she was starting to feel a little something for him. There was something about him.

“I grew up about a half hour from here, but I’ve never been to this town. I never realized how lovely this place is.”

Ben looked down at her. “You grew up near here?”

She nodded. “In Durant. Tell me about this place,” she said so she wouldn’t have to tell him about the home she hadn’t seen since her little sister got married, about the place she wasn’t worthy of returning to.

“My great-grandmother was from the village. She met my great-grandfather when he was up here scouting places to build a steel mill, but he fell in love with her instead. My grandmother was willing to give up this town and move her life to the city. But my grandfather saw how much she loved this little village and instead of building a mill he built a Windermere for her. He moved his life here for her.”

“That’s very romantic. People don’t do things like that anymore.” She shook her head. “Well, maybe that’s not true. My brother-in-law would do anything for my sister. He quit his job and went into a huge amount of debt just so he could make her dream of owning her own business come true. And my stepfather, he turned down a high-paying job at Stanford just so he could be with my mother. I guess people do crazy things all the time in the name of love. I guess I just haven’t had anybody want to do something like that for me.”

She stopped talking, feeling foolish for revealing so much of herself to Ben. She could hear the sadness in her voice. Feel the heaviness in her chest. It was something that she tried to avoid, thinking about her family. She had caused the rift between them. Their absence was her fault. She missed them and yet she wasn’t ready to face them. Not until she could show them that she could stand on her own, that she could make something of herself. She just wished she knew how long it would take until she got there.

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