Hunk for the Holidays by Katie Lane

Author:Katie Lane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Western, General, Fiction / Romance - Contemporary
ISBN: 9781455522378
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2012-09-24T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

For Christmas Eve morning and a Sunday, traffic was brutal. It took James forever to get to his house. Or maybe it just seemed like forever because he happened to be in a hurry. A hurry to get back to Cassandra. And why was that? Hell, she hadn’t even turned around once on the way into the M & M building. He didn’t know why something that stupid would bother him. It just did. His annoyance grew when he pulled into his driveway and saw half the neighborhood in his front yard setting up brown paper sacks.

For a moment, James thought about pulling into the garage and ignoring his neighbors, but then the guy who lived next door waved, and James figured that he didn’t have much of a choice. Still, he couldn’t help glancing at his watch before he stepped from the Land Rover. An hour twenty-two minutes and counting.

The guy next door stuck out the hand that didn’t hold three lunch-sized bags. “Les Finley.”

“James Sutton.” He shook the guy’s hand and then watched as a couple teenage boys in the back of a pickup handed off the bags to a group of women who then placed them on the front lawn. James didn’t know a lot about luminaria placement, but it sure looked like a jumbled mess to him. While the other houses had them neatly lined along the driveways and sidewalks, the neighbors had placed James’s in nine crooked lines they’d shoveled through the snow. Sensing James’s confusion, Les clarified.

“Betty thought you might like to have them in the shape of a menorah like the Greenburgs.”

Now would’ve been the time to mention that he wasn’t Jewish, but James refused to add fuel to the conversation when he was in a hurry.

“I figure you and the Greenburgs would just as soon do without them altogether,” Les continued. “But once Betty gets something in her head, it’s best to just go along with it. She means well.”

James’s eyes narrowed on the older woman, who was issuing orders like Patton on D-Day. Means well, my ass. The woman just liked to issue orders. Speaking of people who liked to issue orders, he glanced at his watch and tried to bring the conversation to an end.

“I’d love to help out, but I have an appointment I need to get ready for.”

Les glanced over at him and grinned. “Yeah, I saw you driving off with her yesterday morning.” His eyes turned wistful. “I remember what it was like to have those appointments. Now I’m lucky if I have one every other week. Not that I don’t love the kids, but once in a while…” His voice trailed off before he snapped out of his daydream and cleared his throat. “Don’t worry about helping. We’ve got it covered. And my son and his friends will come back tonight and light them. That’s if it doesn’t snow.” He grinned. “Of course, I don’t know what I’m talking about. A little thing like a blizzard won’t stop Betty from seeing her plan to fruition.

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