Their Christmas Angel by Tracy Madison

Author:Tracy Madison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Come on, girls,” Parker hollered up the stairs the following Saturday, a mere thirty minutes before he was supposed to pick up Nicole. First, he had to drop off Erin and Megan at Daisy and Reid’s, and they were running behind schedule. “We need to get going.”

The girls ran down the stairs carrying their overnight bags. Megan was excited, but Erin had dragged her feet for the past hour. And she’d been quieter than normal, even more introspective, for the past week. Something was going on with his eldest daughter; Parker just wasn’t sure what. He’d tried to talk with her, but she swore she was fine.

Maybe she was. He could be reading far too much into the relatively small change in her demeanor. But if there was something bothering her, either she’d tell him what was on her mind or he’d figure it out. Eventually. Erin wouldn’t be rushed. The kid lived in her head more often than not, just as Parker’s sister did. The two were a lot alike, in looks and in personality.

Once they were at Daisy’s, he pulled his sister aside and asked her to see if she could get Erin to open up, and explained why. His sister agreed, told him not to worry and almost shoved him out of her front door with the order to relax and enjoy himself.

Well, that was the plan.

Even so, his palms were sweaty when he rang Nicole’s doorbell. He might as well have jumped into a time warp and returned to his sixteen-year-old self, his nerves were that jittery. That had to be good, really. If he wasn’t nervous, he’d have to question why he’d asked Nicole out in the first place. A first date with a woman should induce anxiety, to a certain extent.

And when she opened the door, his heart could’ve been a balloon, the way it seemed to blow up in his chest. She looked... Beautiful didn’t come close to being an accurate enough description. Her pale blond hair was twisted into a loose knot on the back of her head, with a few tendrils framing her face. Those green-gold eyes were outlined in smoky gray, and her lips were a glossy rosy pink. Not too dark. Not too light. Just perfect.

No, beautiful didn’t quite cut it. Ethereal came to mind. As did delicate and alluring.

Elegant, too, even in a pair of black jeans and a soft, almost-fuzzy jade green sweater that fell slightly off one shoulder. Lord, he was a lucky man to have this woman on his arm.

“You look...beautiful, Nicole,” he said, falling back on the only word he felt comfortable using. He couldn’t tell her she looked ethereal or delicate, now, could he? “Simply beautiful.”

There was that blush again, washing over her pale, creamy skin. She put on her coat and stepped outside, locking the door behind her. He’d left his coat in the car. He was too sweaty to put on another layer. Too nervous and too filled with anticipation.

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