Christmas Box Set by Nella Tyler

Author:Nella Tyler [Tyler, Nella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 42739953
Published: 2018-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

Sophia

SophiaSeveral Days Later, Mid December

I didn’t have to go into the museum today — we never opened on Mondays — so I planned to do absolutely nothing besides languish in my warm apartment. I’d already brewed some coffee in my French press and had a few buttered pieces of toast to eat while I went through the emails on my tablet, erasing the crap and responding briefly to the important ones. I was buried chest deep in a cocoon of blankets surfing through several of my social media accounts, liking and reposting whatever caught my eye when my phone rang. It wasn’t even nine o’clock, but my mother was calling. Frowning, I answered, expecting the worst.

“Is everything okay?” I asked, instead of hello. She never called earlier than noon, going back to my days in college when it was unlikely I’d be away before that. Now I got up early even on my days off.

Mom laughed, and I relaxed immediately. “Hello to you, too. What a strange greeting.”

“Well, you don’t usually call so early.”

“I wanted to catch you before you left for the day.”

Now it was my turn to laugh. I didn’t have a landline, so every call came through my cell, meaning it didn’t matter where I was. Mom had both a cell and a landline, and she sometimes forget that we were all connected, all the time.

“You can call whenever you like, Mom. I carry my phone with me wherever I go.”

She made a dismissive sound.

“What’s up?” I said.

“What are your plans for Christmas?” she asked, sounding hopeful.

I’d just gone home for Thanksgiving, which was my way of making up for the fact that I wasn’t planning to come home for Christmas. I had a lot of work to do at the museum and wanted to just have a low key holiday that didn’t involve traveling and long lines at the airport full of cranky, impatient people. Willem had invited me over to have Christmas dinner with his wife and kids. I hadn’t accepted yet, but I planned to. Not leaving the city would be great. There were tons of great things happening here during that week that I wouldn’t get to take part in if I went back to Wisconsin for the holidays.

But, really, I didn’t want to hassle with flying home and, since things had gone sideways with Carter, I liked to stay out of Madison as much as possible. I knew that was stupid and childish, but that was how it was. The strategy had worked well for me for years. I didn’t see a reason to change it now, especially since I had no intention of ever moving back to Wisconsin. I’d considered it daily in college until the worst of my homesickness abated. And then things had gone the way they did with Carter — all my fault, I knew, but there was no changing it now — and that solidified my resolve not to return home. Landing the internship in the city had just been the icing on the cake.

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