His Christmas Redemption by Danica Favorite

Author:Danica Favorite
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-08-09T14:16:54+00:00

Chapter Eight

Lance hung back as a group went to cut Christmas trees. He looked around for Erin and the boys but didn’t see them. Ricky stepped up beside him. “They’re fine. Erin’s in the warming hut over by the pond, and the boys went with the others to get trees. Jack, my foreman, is watching out over them. Erin looked like she could use a break and, after the conversation in the sleigh, I figured you could use one, too.” Ricky held up a thermos. “Want some coffee?”

Lance nodded and Ricky unscrewed the cap and handed it to him. He poured some coffee into that cup then pulled a folding cup out of his jacket pocket.

“We sell a lot of those in our stores,” Lance said. “Very handy.”

Ricky grinned. “That’s where I got it. Always loved your stuff. You might not be the cheapest outfit around, but you get what you pay for.”

He liked Ricky’s no-nonsense way of putting things.

“That’s always been the point of Ultimate Outdoors,” Lance said. “My friend Chad and I started the company after we’d gone on a camping trip and the equipment we bought at one of those big box stores failed. We talked to the company, but they didn’t care. So, we started our own business, finding the best equipment out there. People liked it, and the business grew faster than either of us could have imagined.”

He felt like an idiot, rambling on about the business, except Ricky seemed interested. Whenever he’d talked about work, Erin had always seemed to zone out. Even being here, with Lance finally having an opportunity to prove himself, Erin had gotten defensive when he’d tried to tell her about it.

One more reason he wondered how they would make it work a second time if it had been such a problem for her during their marriage. He still needed to make a living. And now that he’d spent part of the day with her and her friends, he couldn’t see her being willing to give this up to move back to Denver with him.

“It’s like a good woman,” Ricky said. “Once you find one, you don’t want to let her go.”

He should have known he was walking right into something. It was plain to see that the old man cared deeply for Erin and her family. Lance was glad that the sisters had finally found a father figure they could count on.

Lance smiled at Ricky. “A good woman is a treasure indeed, but just because she’s a good woman doesn’t mean she’s the right woman for every man.”

Ricky didn’t return his smile. “How’d you let her go?”

“She left me,” Lance said.

“What’d you do to make her leave? Erin isn’t the type to walk away from a commitment. She’s the most loyal woman I know.”

His father had asked him that same question, for the same reasons. Except his father had also made snide comments about how he figured Lance couldn’t keep a woman like Erin. But Lance could tell by the look on Ricky’s face that he wasn’t so much judging him as trying to understand.

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