His Christmas Miracle by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
Publisher: The Tule Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2016-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

December 12th

Quincy considered himself a decisive person. Focused. But that woman was driving him batty. He couldn’t stop thinking about her as he helped Atlas glue a polar bear to the underside of a lid for a jar.

He was back to sitting on a child-sized plastic orange chair while they made a homemade snow globe. The woman running the workshop came by to ask Atlas whom he was planning to give his globe to.

Quincy expected to hear that Lucy would be the lucky recipient. Atlas had asked if he would see the little girl here and had been disappointed when Quincy told him probably not.

To Quincy’s surprise, Atlas said the globe was a present for Nicki.

“Oh, that’s nice. Who is Nicki?” The woman looked to Quincy.

Other kids had mentioned grandparents, aunts, and teachers. Atlas said, “My fwen’.”

“A family friend,” Quincy confirmed, feeling odd calling her that. A man didn’t come as close as he had to making a pass at a friend.

And now he was back to second-guessing what he’d done this morning. What he’d done yesterday morning, when he had run out to see if he could start her car. He’d taken a hard look at what a rat trap it was, then had thought about her reluctance to accept help, yet she’d been ready to buy milk and walk it to his house…

On impulse, he’d detoured back to the grocery store and asked where he could pick up tickets to the ball, the one that was raising money to repair the courthouse. The one the prince was supposed to attend.

He wanted to do something nice. It was a good cause. Maybe he’d been possessed with the spirit of Christmas for five seconds. Whatever had made him do it, he’d walked into his kitchen feeling like he’d found the perfect gift for someone. He’d been smug and amused as he exchanged banter with Nicki.

Then he had almost kissed her.

The tickets had stayed in his wallet the rest of the day, practically burning a hole in the leather. Bad idea, he kept thinking.

Even so, he found himself following her with his gaze every time she came anywhere near him, feeling guilty, yet hungry in the way a man’s libido made him.

He was her boss.

Then he had driven her home and she’d been so hard on herself. How could she not see how bright and kind she was? How successful at simply being a good person?

When he rose this morning, he had spent a good ten minutes staring at that cardboard tree of hers. She and Atlas were going to make homemade wrapping paper tomorrow. On Thursday, they were going ice skating. The rest of the days until Christmas were empty.

Saturday was empty.

Some things in life were a hit between the eyes, completely unexpected. Things like, You have a son. Other times, an action was taken that couldn’t be untaken.

He had opened his wallet and stuck the tickets under the paperclip for Saturday.

Maybe she would say, No thanks. Maybe she would go with someone else.

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