Western Christmas Wishes by Brenda Minton & Jill Kemerer

Author:Brenda Minton & Jill Kemerer [Minton, Brenda & Kemerer, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781488043185
Goodreads: 45734721
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2019-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

The world glittered with fresh snow. It was pretty. Peaceful.

Leann sipped tea at one of the dining tables the next morning. Sunni was making Bumbles hop along the windowsill of the picture window close to Leann’s chair. A snowplow had poked through Main Street once. Not many other vehicles were out and about. Last night Michael had mentioned coming over to help her out, but maybe he was just being nice.

Would he show up this morning?

“Bubba want cookie.” Sunni hugged the rabbit tightly.

“He does, huh? Did he eat his eggs like a good bunny?” She eyed the plate of scrambled eggs Sunni had barely touched.

With wide eyes, Sunni nodded.

Leann wasn’t falling for her innocent act. “If Bumbles eats three more bites of eggs—big bites—then I think he can have a cookie.”

“Bubba not hungwy for eggs. He want cookie.”

“No cookie before eggs.”

Sunni’s bottom lip jutted out, and rather than eating her breakfast, she resumed playing with Bumbles.

After severe chills last night, Leann had fallen into a deep sleep with Sunni tucked into her side. She’d woken stiff and sore. She couldn’t put any weight on her left wrist. Thankfully, Sunni hadn’t minded holding her good hand to climb down the stairs this morning. But Leann wasn’t sure what she’d do when her daughter’s energy ran out. The child would want to be carried, a difficult task given Leann’s wrist.

She wouldn’t worry about it now. In fact, she wasn’t worrying about anything. None of her troubles mattered because she was here. Ready to start the next chapter—a good chapter—in her life. As soon as she found an apartment, she’d call the movers to bring the rest of her stuff and get settled for good, but in the meantime, she’d stay at the B and B. Leann and Sunni seemed to be the only guests at the moment.

Earlier, she’d peeked down the street, and a thrill had rushed through her at the sight of all of the snow-covered awnings above shop doors, strings of Christmas lights stretched across the road and big red bows wrapped around lampposts.

This was her new home, and it was delightful.

The owners of the B and B, Margo and her husband, Felix, had left a note stating breakfast was set up on the dining room buffet, and if she needed anything to help herself. They would be back this afternoon. Apparently, they were checking on Margo’s mother, who lived across town.

“Cookie now, Mama?”

Leann pointed to Sunni’s abandoned plate full of food. Sunni let out a loud, pitiful sigh, climbed back into her chair and tucked into the eggs. Meanwhile, Leann made a mental list of everything she needed to do in the upcoming days.

First things first. She’d call Kelli to let her know she’d arrived. In the next day or two, she planned on stopping in at The Sassy Lasso to get an overall feel for the store. Then she’d find an apartment and set up childcare for Sunni. When she’d called last week, two day-care centers in town had spots for her daughter.

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