This Christmas in Paris: A heartwarming festive novel for 2023, full of romance and Christmas magic! by Sophie Claire

Author:Sophie Claire [Claire, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781529349986
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2023-08-16T18:30:00+00:00

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Mat

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at was at work, but he was daydreaming. Thinking about Carys in the park the day before, and how she’d pulled him to his feet and spun him around. Her hands had felt warm in his and excitement had fizzed through him. Her joy and vitality rained down on him like glitter.

We get one chance at this, Mat. We owe it to ourselves to make the best of it! Her smile had reached inside him and touched something. He’d swallowed, feeling a tumble of emotions that made him dizzy. Just the after-effects of spinning, he told himself. Yet he knew that wasn’t true. It was what he had seen in her eyes that made his stomach flip. Her light and her energy were infectious.

Then she’d looked at her watch and grabbed her stuff, calling Au revoir! over her shoulder as she’d hurried away. He’d waved as he watched her disappear behind the hot-food kiosk. And when she’d gone he’d sat down again, in exactly the same spot where he’d been comfortably sitting earlier.

But once Carys was gone it had felt as if there was an enormous void. The park, busy though it was, had felt empty.

He was smitten, he thought. Totally smitten. This was it, the coup de foudre people talked about, feelings that knocked you off your feet and spun your world around. He carried thoughts of her with him everywhere, replaying their every conversation. And when he was with her, he wanted to touch her cheek and feel the satin of her skin. He wanted to draw her to him, see those brown eyes sparkle with joy, feel her energy course through him. He wanted to be there for her. He wanted to erase the shadows he sometimes glimpsed, help her leave behind whatever it was that haunted her. He wanted to be her knight in shining armour – and he had a feeling she might be his. He hoped, he really hoped, that his instinct was correct. That she was the one he’d been waiting for.

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