A Texas Christmas Wish by Jolene Navarro

Author:Jolene Navarro
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The therapist had been at the ranch all morning working with Dub. Now he and Bryce were napping, leaving Karly to explore the small wooden box of recipes she had found in the back of the pantry a week ago, the day after their ride.

Curved on the top lid was “Happy Mom Day to the Best Mom. Love Tyler.” The crude writing melted Karly’s heart every time she looked at it.

Each index card was written in the same graceful cursive. Notes and doodles gave insight into the personal family connection for the most important recipes. She pulled the sugar cookie recipe again. Two little hearts decorated the upper corner with Dub’s and Tyler’s names written next to them. She had tried making the cookies three times now and found new ways to fail each time. She had one week until Thanksgiving to get all the recipes perfected. Today she would get the cookies right.

The last pieces of the village were going up today and everyone was bringing a baked good to celebrate. She wanted to take the cookies. She read each line and followed the directions. With the oven preheated, she slid her first batch into the stove. Setting the timer, she went to the computer to read over the study guides for her GED classes. Number one on her list was to get her high school diploma. She found the dates the test was given in Uvalde and circled them on her calendar.

She had ordered her birth certificate, and as soon as it arrived, she could finish signing up for the classes. That process hadn’t been easy. Karly had known her mother was Hawaiian, and now she knew she herself had been born there, too. Anthony had also changed her birthday a couple of times. She’d had to do some digging to get the document she needed to pave the way for her future.

Karly jumped at a noise behind her.

Adrian stepped back. “Didn’t mean to frighten you. We knocked on the door. What has you so engrossed you didn’t hear us open the back?”

On the other side of her, Tyler leaned over and looked at the screen. “GED classes?”

Karly turned off the monitor. The timer on the oven went off. Saved by the bell. Using the mittens, she pulled out two sheets of cookies. So far so good. They didn’t look burned.

“I have perfect timing. Nothing better than cookies straight out of the oven.” Adrian pulled a flat wire rack from the bottom cabinet and set it next to the stove top. “Here’s the cooling rack.”

Tyler had a spatula ready. It wasn’t fair that all the men on the ranch seemed to know more about cooking than she did. “What are the two of you doing at the house together at this time of day?”

“Picking up Dad’s tools for the finishing touches on the Bethlehem village.” He nudged a cookie with the edge of the spatula. “I talked to the therapist. He said Dad’s recovery is going well.

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