His Christmas Bride (The Brides of Paradise Ranch (Spicy Version) Book 9) by Merry Farmer

Author:Merry Farmer [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-06T18:30:00+00:00

“You got it?” Trey asked as he and George secured firm grips on the trunk of one of the trees that had been brought into the church as decoration the week before.

“Yeah,” George confirmed from his squat position. “Ready? One, two, three.”

The two men lifted the tree and its heavy stand. With short, grunting steps, they carried it from the spot on the chancel where Holly’s choir would now stand, moving it to the side. One of the stained-glass windows would be covered on either side at the front of the sanctuary because of the new placement of the trees, but it was worth it to give Holly the space she needed for her choir. He’d give her a lot more if he could, if he had half an idea what she might want.

George ground out a breath as he and Trey set the tree down in its new spot, and George stood with a grunt. “I’m not as young as I used to be.”

Trey laughed, a hand to his own back. “None of us are. We think we’re immortal when we’re on the low side of our twenties. Then we get to the other side, up into our thirties, and it all goes away.”

George huffed a laugh and moved to flop into the first pew, staring at his and Trey’s handiwork of the day. “At least, from what the old men in their later thirties and forties and even older tell me, we all get a second wind once we acknowledge we’re not young anymore.”

Trey lowered himself into the pew beside George with a groan that could have been agreement or just his back hurting. “I’ll let you in on a little secret,” he said. “I’m gonna be thirty-five this summer.”

“Really?” George looked his friend over. “I always thought you weren’t quite thirty.”

Trey laughed. “We all look like babies in our family, but believe me, I’ve lived a little.” He reached up to rub the scar that cut across his face. Few people in town knew as much about that scar as George did, how Trey had received it in an ill-fated foray on the wrong side of the law, how he’d nearly lost his eye and his life because of it, how it turned his heart and convinced him to walk on the right side of the law. But there was much more that George sensed he didn’t know.

That thought led him right back to the others that hadn’t left him alone for a week. He cleared his throat. “So Trey. In all those years of life you’ve got…” He paused, second-guessing the question he wanted to ask.

“What?” Trey called him out. It was clear as day that he knew something was on George’s mind.

George adjusted his posture, rolled his shoulders, and dove in. “Have you ever had to forgive someone for something that was your fault in the first place?”

Trey stared at him, arms crossed. “This has to do with that pretty new wife of yours, doesn’t it.

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