The Last Noel by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781426807879
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2007-11-27T23:00:00+00:00

David looked over at Skyler and forced himself to smile reassuringly at her.

What a joke, he thought. He was supposed to be the man of the house, the protector of his family. Well, he’d been one hell of a failure, hadn’t he?

But his wife wasn’t looking at him as if that was the case. Strange and bitter, but true. They’d been at odds getting ready for Christmas. She’d complained for years about how hard it was to pull everything together when they went away to celebrate, so this year, he’d been ready to give in and stay in Boston, but she’d wanted to come here.

To keep the family together, she’d said. The kids might have come around for dinner otherwise, but someone would have shown up late or left early. There would have been bitching. Arguments. And by five or six, everyone would have been gone. Even Jamie, who always wanted to spend more time with his friends than his family these days.

But could you really hold a family together by force? And did the kids really want to be here? Did he and Skyler really even know each other after all these years of constantly being at odds?

And yet…

Skyler was staring at him as she hadn’t in a very long time. There was so much caring and concern in her eyes. And more. A message, as if she were trying to tell him it had been a good run, and that she loved him…whatever might come.

He tried to make his eyes say something, too. He tried to tell her that they would survive this.

And he knew there was something else, something they both agreed on: their children were going to survive, no matter what it took.

And they both knew that Kat was still there, a hidden asset against these men.

He returned his attention to the game, trying to hide his true feelings about this insane parody of family life Quintin was making them play out.

Suddenly Quintin was on his feet. “I hear something,” he said, tension in every line of his body.

“Yeah, us,” Craig said, frowning.

“No. Outside,” Quintin said. “Somebody’s out there.”

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