The Holiday Hunting Lodge (Christmas House Romances Book 3) by Jennifer Griffith

Author:Jennifer Griffith [Griffith, Jennifer]
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, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Romantic Schemes, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty, Christmas Holidays & Celebration, Christmas Time, Holiday Whimsy, Festive Season, Winter Weather, Christmas House Romances Series
Publisher: Jennifer Griffith
Published: 2019-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

Mattie

Going peeking in barns when strange lurkers could be hiding nearby might not have been her most inspired move yesterday. Or her highest on the personal safety scale. That said, it had sent Jesse into a frenzy of chords and melodies.

With her sketchbook in her lap again, she drew an owl in flight while sitting on the swing on the glassed-in balcony. The tunes filtering from Jesse’s piano below didn’t hurt her creative process. The result on her page wasn’t perfect, but she may have captured the owl’s magnificence to some degree.

Nature’s majesty—Jesse had assigned her as an appreciator of it. He wasn’t wrong.

Amazing how he could represent the flight with musical notes, in a similar way to her drawing, but altogether different at the same time.

This searching side of him, where he had to work so hard for the inspiration that came to his creative process, fascinated her. Okay, it captivated her. She was its prisoner. And until she got away from the daily meshing of Jesse Parrish into her life, she’d never get out of this jail.

I should mind more than I do. But memories of the fact that he’d dated Naomi were starting to wear off. After so many days in the cabin together, it was starting to feel like just the two of them existed, in a chilly, downy-soft world of muted nature sounds and lovely piano melodies. Nothing could approach them, intrude on them, even the power of memory. It was all too far distant in time and geography.

Just Jesse and me. No one else.

How would that be, in actual fact?

While he worked, she took an afternoon walk. Berries glowed red against the stark, bare branches of a bramble bush. She examined them, and then picked a few. Not too many. The foraging animals would need some, too. But this many would look great against her bark wreath, a color contrast.

“You sure those aren’t poisonous?” Jesse was standing in the kitchen when Mattie entered. A milk mustache decorated his upper lip. She shouldn’t have stared so openly at his mouth. A tingle floated across her skin. “Don’t eat them, okay? We’ve got plenty in the fridge.”

He cared if she got poisoned. How cute. “I’m using them for my crafts, but they’re not poisonous.”

“You sure?” He relaxed the hand he’d reached out to stop her from popping them into her mouth, and he gave a little laugh. “Of course you’re sure. You’re Mattie Daines. All you Daineses and your supernaturally smart brainses.”

That rhyme had surfaced countless times when she was a kid—but not ever in reference to Mattie. Only to Firth, Naomi, and Rex. Mom and Dad had even applied it a few times to the Summas, going so far as adding it as decorative writing to Firth’s college graduation cake.

Mattie hadn’t ever received a college graduation cake.

That was what happened when a person didn’t graduate.

“You asked the other day.” Something made her want to tell Jesse about this. Now. Maybe the isolation. Maybe the fact she’d never told anyone how she ended up where she was.

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