A Merry Little Christmas by Anita Higman

Author:Anita Higman [Higman, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Merry Little Christmas
ISBN: 9781609366889
Google: McKkuAAACAAJ
Publisher: Summerside Press
Published: 2012-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Just to make certain his prelude to a kiss had the desired effect, Charlie retrieved the truffle from her lap, slowly unwrapped it, and fed it to her in bites. “These truffles come from Belgium, by the way. They’re dark chocolate filled with rose cream. What do you think?”

Franny swallowed the last bite. “Aromatic. Luscious.” She licked her lips. “Extraordinary.”

“Hmm.” Charlie nodded. “Good evocative adjectives.” Then he tilted her head with his finger and brushed his lips over hers. “I wonder if that’s where the idea for a chocolate kiss came from.”

She laced her fingers around his neck and pulled him down for a serious kiss. When they later disengaged—impossible to tell how much later—from their mystical enchantment, Franny found her voice. “Merry Christmas.”

“Merry Christmas,” he whispered back.

“I think I’ve waited my whole life for that kiss.”

“Me too.” Charlie eased away. “Your face has a rosy glow from being so close to the fire.”

“The glow isn’t from the fire. At least not that one.” She gestured to the fireplace in front of them.

Charlie chuckled. “You know, sometimes you see a thing far away. You don’t know what it is, but you feel drawn to it, because you know this thing will change your life. And the closer you get…”

“The closer you get?”

“I’m not saying this very well.” Charlie gently took her face into his hands. “All I know is, well, those three weeks on the farm with you were the best three weeks of my life. And the day you were gone, well, it was the worst day of my life. And that’s not even including the barn burning down.”

Franny laughed.

“What’s so funny?”

“For somebody who doesn’t think he can say it right, you really said it right.”

“I did?”

“You did. You could be a poet.”

“A sad and sorry poet.”

Franny kissed his hand before he released her. “But what are we going to do when we go back to the farm tomorrow? Things have changed between us. If the boss is dating the hired help, it could get messy.”

Charlie kissed the tip of her nose. “I don’t think the cows will be filing a complaint against us.”

“No. They wouldn’t dare. They love me too much.”

“I guess we’ll have to take it one day at a time. But know this: you’re changing my life, Franny girl.”

“And you’ve changed mine.” She paused. “So tell me, is there any improvement in your leg?”

“Your kisses have cured me. Better than medicine. Look, no limp.”

“That’s because you’re sitting down.”

Charlie chuckled. “So I am.”

They sat there by the fire, drinking each other in for a moment, when Charlie felt a pang of guilt, knowing that if Franny were to someday become a member of the Landau family, then he could no longer hide certain secrets from her. “You know, you were so fortunate to have had parents who were loving and generous and full of virtue. The way you talk about them moves me. It makes me wish…”

“Yes?”

“Well, when a person is ill, sometimes that person just needs a little help to get back to the place where he or she started.

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