Mistletoe Mine (An Eternity Springs Novella): An Eternity Springs Novella by Emily March

Author:Emily March [March, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780345534941
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2011-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

As Christmas approached, Molly grew both more excited and more despairing. She loved all the hustle and bustle surrounding the holiday and wedding preparations. She hated the way her mom and dad managed to participate in said hustle and bustle and seldom interact. She guessed that this was what she had to look forward to from now on where her parents were concerned.

Molly admitted that a part of her had hoped that the suggestion to divorce might drive her parents to attempt to save the marriage, but she’d meant what she’d said in making the request. Neither one of them was happy, and this state of suspension wasn’t good for anybody. Still, seeing them together but apart hurt her heart.

Maybe she’d made a mistake asking for one last family Christmas. Maybe she and Charlie should have eloped.

A knock on the door of her room at Angel’s Rest interrupted her brooding. “Come in.”

The door cracked open, and her dad stuck his head inside. “Hey, sweetheart. Got a little time for your old man?”

“Sure. I don’t meet Charlie for another twenty minutes.” She and the Malones had reservations for an afternoon sleigh ride around Hummingbird Lake.

Her father entered the room carrying a shopping bag with packages wrapped in Christmas paper inside. “Can I get you to do a favor for me, Molly?”

“Sure. What’s up?”

He held up the bag. “These are for your mother. They’ve sort of piled up over the past few years, and I’d like you to give them to her for me.”

Molly straightened in alarm. “You’re not leaving, are you? You’ll be here for Christmas?”

“Yes. I promised you I’d be here, and I’m not going to weasel out.”

“Then why don’t you give her the gifts?”

He shrugged. “I don’t think it’s appropriate at this point.”

“Why not? What are they?”

“Just some things I thought she could use.”

“But Dad, I don’t understand. Are you not going to give her a Christmas gift this year?”

“I’m going to give her a gift,” he said with a scowl. “Just not these gifts.”

“Why not?”

The exasperated look on his face told her he would say no more about it. “I need to run. I’m picking your Aunt Shelby up at the airport in Gunnison at four. Have fun on your sleigh ride this afternoon.”

After he left, she inspected the bag and recognized the wrapping paper on the box on top. It was the reindeer paper she’d bought last year to wrap his gifts for Nana and Aunt Shelby. She picked up the second box and studied it. The gold foil struck a memory, too. She’d brought that paper home for the holidays from college two years ago. The third box … she remembered that one sitting beneath the Christmas tree the first year that her mother didn’t come home. At the very bottom was a box wrapped in paper she’d never seen before. This year’s gift?

Molly sat cross-legged on her bed and stared at the packages. He’d kept buying Mom gifts. He’d kept buying her gifts, and he’d brought them to give to her this Christmas.

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