Once Upon a Christmas (PTA Moms Book 2) by Holly Jacobs

Author:Holly Jacobs [Jacobs, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ilex Books
Published: 2017-10-31T23:00:00+00:00

DANIEL HAD BEEN SURPRISED, after his game of PIG with Brandon, when Michelle had offered to let the two of them go pick up Chloe and bring the dog back to her house. She said she'd start dinner.

She'd let him have Brandon on his own before, but it had never been her suggestion. Daniel took it to mean she was finally starting to trust him.

Unlike big cities, where a drive from town to county might take a significant amount of time, it wasn't fifteen minutes to get from the school to Daniel's, and he made even better time heading in to Erie because he was moving in the opposite direction of the after-work traffic.

"Hey, Dan?" Brandon asked from the back seat as they stopped for the red light at the Belle Valley fire station.

Brandon had insisted that Chloe didn't like riding by herself and had joined her, so Daniel was able to glance in the rearview mirror to see the boy. "Yes?"

"Can you tell me about my mom? About the two of you?"

"It will take more than just the five minutes we have left, but sure. Your mom was my best friend. I went to Penn State University, on the main campus in State College. It was a long way from home, and I missed my grandparents, and all my friends here in Erie. Your mom was working at a restaurant I went to, and one day I said something about home, and she asked where it was, and turns out, she was from Erie, too."

"She never liked it here, though," Brandon said.

Daniel noted Brandon's very serious expression.

"I don't think it was that she didn't like Erie, it's just your mom. . ." He tried to think of a description of Tara. "Your mom was a free spirit. She was so full of life, so filled with a sense of possibility. I don't know that there was any city anywhere that could have held on to her. She was always anxious to see what was around the next bend. She talked about leaving State College practically from the day I met her."

"But she stayed around."

"For a while. She helped me through losing my grandparents. She helped me figure out what I should do with my life. That's a gift, Brandon."

"But she left you. Just like she left all the other guys. She was always sure that her new guy was the one she was looking for, but he never was. Not even you." There was a maturity in Brandon's voice that didn't sound as if it belonged to a seventh-grader.

"Your mom and I were friends. Good friends. And I won't lie, it hurt when she left, but Bran, she never promised me she'd stay. I wasn't angry. Well, at least not for long. Your mom was who she was. Fighting that would be like fighting the wind. There's no sense to it. You can't stay angry at the wind."

"I'm angry that she never told me who my dad was," he admitted.

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