How My Neighbour Stole Christmas: A incredibly steamy, hilarious, forced proximity, small town festive romantic comedy by Meghan Quinn

Author:Meghan Quinn [Quinn, Meghan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2024-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Cole

What the fuck are you doing, Cole?

It’s a question I keep repeating to myself over and over as I glance toward Storee, checking for the hundredth time that she’s okay.

When I saw her car pulled off to the side, I felt my entire being go hot with fear. I knew immediately that it had to be her. I’ve seen that car parked in the driveway next-door, and it was headed the same direction as me. It had to be her, and when I saw her tear-stained face, well…fuck, it made me drop the animosity, the pent-up anger, and all I wanted to do was help.

Protect.

Make sure that she wasn’t scared.

Make sure that she was okay.

I went into helping mode.

And when she continued to cry in my truck, visibly shaking, she broke another wall that I had erected between the two of us, and before I knew it, I was holding her, stroking her hair, wanting to remove all the fear that was taking over her body.

Because I know that fear.

I feel it every time I drive in the snow.

It’s the way my parents died…driving in a snowstorm.

Nearly ten years ago. I got that phone call, telling me what happened.

Altering my life forever.

And it’s times like these that I wish I’d been with my parents and hadn’t been left alone.

The fear is so strong, so prevalent during the winter that I make sure to drive in the snow. I make sure to practice. I make sure I don’t allow the fear to turn me catatonic, because that’s what it would do if I allowed it.

So when I woke up this morning and saw that it was snowing, I didn’t even think twice about driving to Clayton. If only I’d checked in on Storee first to see if she was going. Selfishly, I didn’t consider her. I was so focused on myself, focused on conquering the fear once again that always pricks at the back of my neck when I travel in the snow.

I should have asked.

“I’m sorry,” I say before I can stop myself.

“Sorry for what?” she asks, sounding confused as she blots at her tears.

“For not checking in with you before I left, seeing if you needed a ride today.”

“Oh…why would you?”

“It would have been the right thing to do,” I say as I look her in the eyes.

She glances away, staring down at her lap. “You don’t need to apologize, Cole.”

“I do. I really should have checked. That was shitty of me.”

“Cole,” she says, a note of trepidation in her voice. “You owe me nothing. It’s not like we’re friends, right?”

Yeah…I guess we’re not.

I look out toward the snow pelting my windshield, the wetter flakes dragging streaks of water across the glass and collecting on my wipers.

“Right, Cole?” she says again, almost sounding unsure. “We’re not friends.”

I bring my attention back to her. “We were…a while back.”

Her lips press together as she slowly nods. “We were. I miss that side of us.”

I swallow the lump in my throat and nod.

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