Sinister Lang Syne: A Short Holiday Novel (Wicks Hollow) by Colleen Gleason

Author:Colleen Gleason [Gleason, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avid Press
Published: 2020-12-20T18:30:00+00:00

Six

While Callie was printing things off in his home office, Ben took the opportunity to stoke up the fire. He added several logs and by the time she came back into the living room, it was blazing merrily.

He’d turned off the overhead light and the one that beamed in from the kitchen because it seemed so harsh when there was a Christmas tree and a dancing fire to give off a softer light, not because he was setting a seduction scene. After all, he’d left the side table lamp on.

But when Callie came out of his office—her hat drooping even more off the back of her head—he took one look at her and knew something was wrong.

“Callie? Is everything all right? Did you have a problem with the printer? It can be temperamental—”

He didn’t even get to finish the sentence before she burst into tears. The next thing he knew, she was in his arms, sobbing into his shoulder—and he wasn’t sure whether she’d moved into him, or if he’d moved into her.

But it didn’t matter in the least.

He was holding Callie—a damp, soggy Callie, but Callie nonetheless.

“Shhh…it’s all right,” he said, allowing himself to stroke the length of her back, forcing himself to stop just above her ass—and not at all sure what he was soothing her about…and whether it would be okay. “Shhhh…shhh…”

She was warm and soft and curvy and smelled so sweet and delicious that he didn’t care that she was getting tears and snot all over his sweater—which didn’t happen to be one of his favorites, but it had been recently dry-cleaned.

“I’ve decided I’m…going to have to…call off the…wedding.” She gulped when she pulled away a little bit, sobbed a little more. “I…it’s the only…right…thing to do…”

You are not going to be excited about this, he told himself firmly, even as his heart gave a little leap. Just because she’s canceling the wedding because she doesn’t want to die during it doesn’t mean anything.

It just means she doesn’t want to die.

“Oh, Callie, I’m so sorry,” he said. “I really am.” He really was. Because she was bereft and heartbroken and obviously the decision was a difficult one.

She didn’t sob for very long, he’d give her credit for that—just long enough that he could feel the dampness through the sweater and the button-down shirt he wore beneath it—but even once she settled down a little, she didn’t seem interested in putting any proper space between them.

The next thing he knew, he found himself sitting next to her on the couch, Callie tucked up against him, his arm around her waist, as she sighed and sniffled and wiped her nose.

“Sometimes it sucks being an adult,” she said. “You know?”

“Yeah. I know.” He resisted the urge to stroke her along the arm, and he was very aware of the fact that her soft, generous breast was resting against his chest. It felt like it was burning into his side, and he knew exactly where her hip was too, because it was bumping against his hip.

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