One Mistletoe Wish by A.C. Arthur

Author:A.C. Arthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Have a holly jolly Christmas! Have a holly jolly Christmas!

Gray rolled over, dropping an arm over his still-closed eyes, and grinned. Three days after they’d gone caroling, he could still hear Lily singing. She’d sung all that night, even as she ate chicken salad sandwiches and slurped chicken soup at the church. Every song they’d sung as they walked through the streets of Temptation, plus a few she’d added because she said she’d heard them on the radio earlier that day. Gray took that to mean two things—that she loved Christmas as much as her mother and that she also loved to sing.

Jack, on the other hand, wanted his sister to stop the minute she’d begun.

“She sings so loud,” he’d complained as he walked beside Gray, holding his hand.

Lily, once again, was in Gray’s arms. He never really knew how she ended up there, just that whenever he came near her, his arms seemed to itch to hold her. She was light as a feather, her cherublike cheeks soft as she nuzzled against him when she hugged him close. Was there ever anything that had felt this good? Gray had wondered as they’d moved through the streets.

“It’s cold enough to snow,” Jack had said after two or three songs.

He’d only sung the parts to the songs he knew, and usually only after Morgan had given him a questioning look because he was too quiet. Gray could totally relate. He wasn’t a singer, either. Still, there were some lyrics he knew and when they came to a stop across from a row of homes where he was told the town’s oldest living couple lived, they sang “O Come, All Ye Faithful” and Gray sang along. His mother had liked this song. She had sung it every holiday as they decorated their Christmas tree.

When he opened his eyes it was to a dim room and Gray immediately turned to look at the clock on the nightstand. It was after eight in the morning. He’d stayed up late last night going through the boxes of documents that Phil had sent from his father’s house and his office. There’d been so many interesting things inside that Gray hadn’t wanted to stop until he’d gone through each one.

One box had been full of Theodor’s papers, copies of his divorce decree and all their birth certificates, which had been clipped together. Gray had frowned when he’d found those, then quickly put them to the side. His mother had the originals. Gray knew because he and Gemma had been the ones to go through Olivia’s things after she’d died. Another box had large brown envelopes inside. On each envelope was one of the Taylor children’s names. Gray shuffled through until he found the one with his name. He didn’t realize how long he held that envelope in his hands until finally he decided to put that on the side, too.

There were also notes on what Theodor had planned for the properties in Temptation. He’d

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