Mistletoe Mistake by Cindy Caldwell

Author:Cindy Caldwell [Caldwell, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Hearts Desire, Clean & Wholesome, Blessings, Church Services, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, American West, Western & Frontier Romance, River's End Ranch Series, Ranch & Resort, Riston Idaho, Weston Siblings & Family, Semi-Retired Parents, Destination Retreat, Novella Length Story, short story, Multi-Author, Christmas Holidays & Celebration, Christmas Time, Holiday Whimsy, Festive Season
Publisher: Cindy Caldwell
Published: 2017-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Aaron held out his hand for the egg sandwich wrapper when Gillian was done. He wasn’t always a big fan of eating while driving, but the snow wasn’t coming down too hard yet and she clearly knew where she was going.

He’d made lots of visits to rural properties, and many in the snow, but he was happy to let her share her expertise. And expertise it was...she seemed to know just where things might get icy, or where the snow might be a little deeper, and she expertly navigated through the windy roads and culverts on their way to the Franklins.

“Tell me a little more about the Franklins and the property,” he said as they came around a mountain curve into a beautiful clearing. He imagined that in the summertime, it would be a large meadow, filled with wildflowers. It was beautiful even now on this cloudy day with snow coming down, creating larger and larger drifts.

“They’re a lovely young couple, really. Originally from California, and they’d made a fair bit of money in a merger of the company they both worked for. They wanted to move out of the city and onto property. They’d come to River’s End Ranch for a vacation just at the time that the previous ranch owners had passed on and the property was for sale.”

“Did they have a business plan? What did they want to do?”

Gillian gripped the steering wheel with two hands as the road got a little more meandering.

“Not at first. They wanted to move, they knew that, but they hadn’t had much experience out on property.”

“Ah. Well, just living on a ranch is a unique experience,” Aaron said. His thoughts ran to when he’d lived on the ranch with his parents and Allen when they were kids. A lot of it was fun, but a good portion of it was hard work. Still, he would rather have stayed for the hard work than have it end the way it had.

“Aaron?” Gillian said eventually as she sneaked a glance in his direction. “Penny for your thoughts.”

“I’m not sure they’d be worth a penny, but I’m happy to tell you,” he said. All of that was long ago, and while it drove him to make his own fortune in real estate, the charge had faded with the years.

“Allen and I grew up on a farm. Until we were about ten or so, anyway. We had a lot of fun.”

Gillian’s face lit up with her smile. “I always wanted to live on a ranch.”

“Why didn’t you?”

“Oh,” she said, “I grew up in the Florida panhandle. I met Fred’s father when I went to college in New York. He’d come out from Riston. By the time we moved to Idaho, it was time for him to take over the bank from his father, and we needed to live in town. To be close to the bank.”

“Ah,” Aaron said as he nodded slowly.

“Fred did buy some property up on a ridge that we spent time camping at.

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